Table 1.

Descriptive results of patient demographic and clinical statistics between patients with stroke with and without dysphagia.

	Dysphagia	Non-dysphagia
N	292	9,978	p-value
Age for stroke (Mean ± SD)	67.39 (±13.18)	66.67 (±13.64)	0.373
<55	48 (16.44%)	1,876 (18.80%)	0.393
55–64	82 (28.08%)	2,417 (24.22%)
65–74	72 (24.66%)	2,652 (26.58%)
> = 75	90 (30.82%)	3,033 (30.40%)
Gender (N, %)			0.465
Female	118 (40.41%)	4,246 (42.55%)
Male	174 (59.59%)	5,732 (57.45%)
Comorbidities (N, %)
Hypertension	116 (39.73%)	3,927 (39.36%)	0.899
Diabetes	61 (20.89%)	2,141 (21.46%)	0.816
Hyperlipidemia	26 (8.90%)	1,537 (15.40%)	0.002
Myocardial infarction	3 (1.03%)	175 (1.75%)	0.349
Depression	6 (2.05%)	168 (1.68%)	0.628
Epilepsy	16 (5.48%)	226 (2.26%)	<0.001
Charlson comorbidity score (Mean ± SD)	5.10 (±2.92)	4.23 (±2.98)	<0.001
0–2	47 (16.10%)	3,387 (33.94%)	<0.001
3–4	91 (31.16%)	2,894 (29.00%)
5+	154 (52.74%)	3,697 (37.05%)