Study of carotid artery changes in patients with ischemic stroke and metabolic syndrome

Background: The metabolic syndrome is a major and escalating public-health problem and a clinical challenge worldwide. The increasing prevalence of metabolic syndrome is associated with heart and cerebrovascular diseases. Material and methods: A “case-control” study was performed on 125 subjects that were examined in the Cerebrovascular Diseases Neurology Department of the Emergency Medicine Institute, in the period of March 2015–July 2015. All subjects underwent a complete clinical examination and ultrasound examination of the extracranial carotids. Results: The present study shows that the patients with metabolic syndrome (MS) have values of the intima-media thickness and the internal diameter of the common carotid artery significantly higher than the subjects without the metabolic syndrome (p