The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 4 Distribution of patients according to known medical history

From: Vestibular findings in patients with white matter disease

Risk factors^a	Present		Absent
Risk factors^a	No.	%	No.	%
Diabetes	13	43.3	17	56.7
Hypertension	16	53.3	14	46.7
Ischemic heart disease	7	23.3	23	76.7
Hyperlipidaemia	9	30.0	21	70.0
Migraine	5	16.7	25	83.3
^bMultiple risk factor	14	46.7	16	53.3

The most common risk factors were hypertension (53.3%) and diabetes (43.3%), and 46.7% of the study group had more than one risk factor
^aAll patients had at least one risk factor for WMD
^bIn some patients, there were multiple risk factors in the same patient

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