Is there a difference in risk factors for single and multiple symptomatic lesions in small vessel disease? What is the difference between one and plenty--experience from 201 Serbian patients.

Objectives/purposes: Small vessel disease (SVD) is associated with traditional vascular risk factors (RF). The aim of our study was to determine whether different SVD types, single lacunar infarction (LI) and multiple LI (MLI) with or without white matter lesions (WML), have different RF profiles.

Patients And Methods: Forty RF parameters were analysed in 201 consecutive patients with magnetic resonance imaging finding of SVD.