Table 2.
Knowledge of Established Stroke Warning Signs and Risk Factors, Overall and by Age and Sex, Montana, 2004
|
Total
(N = 800) No. (%) |
Male
(n = 322) No. (%) |
Female
(n = 478) No. (%) |
Aged 45–64
years (n = 511) No. (%) |
Aged 65+
years (n = 287) No. (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||||
| Number of warning signs | |||||
|
| |||||
| One or more | 697 (87) | 272 (85) | 425 (89) | 461 (90)a | 234 (82) |
| Two or more | 557 (70) | 200 (62) | 357 (75)a | 387 (76)a | 169 (59) |
| Three | 311 (39) | 111 (35) | 200 (42)a | 225 (44)a | 85 (30) |
|
| |||||
| Number of risk factors | |||||
|
| |||||
| One or more | 683 (85) | 262 (81) | 421 (88)a | 443 (87) | 238 (83) |
| Two or more | 360 (45) | 133 (41) | 227 (48) | 243 (48)a | 116 (40) |
| Three | 55 (7) | 16 (5) | 39 (8) | 41 (8) | 14 (5) |
a
P ⩽.05 for comparisons by sex and age category.