Cigarette Smoking Preferentially Affects Intracranial Vessels in Young Males: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis

• Published in: Neurointervention Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 43 - 52
• Main Authors: Song, Yunsun, Lee, Dongwhane, Suh, Dae Chul, Kim, Joong-Goo, Kim, Jae Kyun, Han, Minkyu, Liu, Hairi, Zhao, Lingbo, Kim, Eun Hye, Jung, Sung Chul, Lee, Dong-Geun, Koo, Hyun Jung, Kim, Min-Ju, Baek, Seunghee, Hwang, Seon Moon, Kim, Bum Joon, Kim, Yeon-Jung, Cho, Hong-Jun, Kim, Sang Joon, Jeon, Sang-Beom, Kim, Jong S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea (South) Korean Society of Interventional Neuroradiology 01.03.2019; 대한신경중재치료의학회
• Subjects: atherosclerosis; cerebrovascular circulation; Original Paper; risk factors; smoking; 방사선과학; Cerebrovascular circulation; Risk factors; Atherosclerosis; Smoking
• ISSN: 2093-9043; 2233-6273
• DOI: 10.5469/neuroint.2018.01123

Cigarette smoking (CS) is one of the major risk factors of cerebral atherosclerotic disease, however, its level of contribution to extracranial and intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ECAS and ICAS) was not fully revealed yet. The purpose of our study was to assess the association of CS to cerebral atherosclerosis along with other risk factors. All consecutive patients who were angiographically confirmed with severe symptomatic cerebral atherosclerotic disease between January 2002 and December 2012 were included in this study. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify risk factors for ECAS and ICAS. Thereafter, CS group were compared to non-CS group in the entire study population and in a propensity-score matched population with two different age-subgroups. Of 1709 enrolled patients, 794 (46.5%) had extracranial (EC) lesions and the other 915 (53.5%) had intracranial (IC) lesions. CS group had more EC lesions (55.8% vs. 35.3%, P<0.001) whereas young age group (<50 years) had more IC lesion (84.5% vs. 47.6%, P<0.001). In multivariate analysis, seven variables including CS, male, old age, coronary heart disease, higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate, multiple lesions, and anterior lesion were independently associated with ECAS. In the propensity-score matched CS group had significant more EC lesion compared to non-CS group (65.7% vs. 47.9%) only in the old age subgroup. In contrast to a significant association between CS and severe symptomatic ECAS shown in old population, young patients did not show this association and showed relatively higher preference of ICAS.