Table 1.

Comparison of baseline characteristics between the intervention and control groups

Group	Number of cases	Sex, male/female	Age, years	Body mass index	Stroke duration, days	Pulmonary dysfunction duration, days	Education years
Intervention	60	32/28	68.60 ± 5.77	24.89 ± 3.57	28.64 ± 3.57	25.58 ± 2.23	9.32 ± 1.26
Control	60	35/25	68.90 ± 5.88	25.01 ± 3.65	28.70 ± 3.62	25.73 ± 2.29	9.37 ± 1.30
t value	-	0.349	0.266	0.19	0.096	0.355	0.16
P value	-	0.588	0.823	0.885	0.941	0.759	0.494