ObjectiveTo investigate the blood uric acid, blood lipid and glycosylated hemoglobin and cerebral artery lesion characteristics in young patients with arteriosclerotic cerebral infarction . MethodsClinical data of 48 youth and 450 aged people with arteriosclerotic cerebral infarction who were admitted to our hospital from December 2007 to December 2012, were analyzed and compared, including risk factors (blood uric acid and blood lipids) as well as cerebral artery lesion characteristics. ResultsThe number of men, the occurance of dyslipidemia, and the number of patients with smoking history and family history in the youth group were higher than those in the aged group. Yet the number of patients with transient ischemic attack history, and complications of diabetes and hypertension in the aged group were higher than those in the youth group. The level of uric acid (UA), triglyceride (TC), and body mass index (BMI) in the youth group were higher than those in the aged group. The main impairment of cerebral artery in the young people group was single vascular lesions, while 88.7% of the aged patients were primarily suffered from double and three lesions, showing a significant difference between the two groups in terms of branch lesion(P＜0.01). ConclusionThe risk factors and characteristics of cerebral arteries in the youth group and the aged group who were suffered from arteriosclerosis cerebral infarction vary from each other. Controlling of smoking and correcting the confusion of serum uric acid and lipid metabolism could be helpful to the prevention and treatment of cerebral infarction in young patients.

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