As shown in Table 1, age, hypertension and diabetes, Fazekas score, total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, and HCY and Lp-PLA2 levels were significantly higher in the CMB group than in the no-CMB group (P < 0.05). Here, PLA2G7 is linked to hypertensive disorder.