Objective To study the clinical features of large-artery atherosclerosis cerebral infarction and perforating artery disease type cerebral infarction.Methods Ninety cases of large-artery atherosclerosis cerebral infarction were set as the observation group and 90 cases of perforating artery disease type cerebral infarction as the control group.The general data and clinical characteristics were performed the comparative analysis.Results The drinking and smoking rates in the observation group were 43.33 ％ and 54.44 ％ respectively,which were in turn higher than 27.78 ％ and 25.56 ％in the control group;the occurrence rates of complicating coronary heart disease and lipid metabolism abnormality in the observation group were 45.56 ％and 58.89 ％respectively,which were in turn higher than 21.11 ％ and 37.78 ％in the control group;while the occurrence rate of complicating diabetes mellitus in the control group was 65.56 ％,which was higher than 42.22％ in the observation group,the differences were statistically significant(P＜0.05).Plasma oxidized low density lipoprotein and circulating endothelial cell count in the observation group were (687 ± 169)g/L and(9.0 ±1.7) × 106/L respectively,which were significantly higher than the normal level in the control group,the level of nitric oxide in the observation group was(77.4±21.1)mol/L,which was lower than that in the control group.The differences between the two groups were statistically significant(P＜0.05).Conclusion The onset factors of large artery atherosclerosis cerebral infarction have larger relation with drinking,smoking,complicating coronary heart disease and lipid metabolism abnormality,while perforating artery disease type cerebral infarction is more related with diabetes.