Elderly patients with asymptomatic carotid bruits have a high incidence of silent cerebral infarction, which is strongly associated with hypertension and advanced atherosclerosis.
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Silent cerebral infarction common in asymptomatic carotid bruits and tied to hypertension; hypothesis-generating, should not yet change practice.
Iwamoto et al. (1999) studied this question.
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