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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2008 Dec 18;40(2):389–393. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.529388

Table 2.

Number of patients with individual components of retinopathy by stroke subtype. There are no significant differences in proportions with retinopathy features between stroke subtypes.

Characteristic Lacunar
Stroke
Cortical
Stroke
% Difference
(95% CI)
P value
n 105 109
Hard Exudates (%) 4 (4%) 8 (7%) 3.5% (−2.6%, 9.6%) 0.26
Soft Exudates (%) 6 (6%) 5 (5%) 1.1% (−4.8%, 7.0%) 0.71
Haemorrhage/
microaneurysm(%)
14 (13%) 12 (11%) 2.3% (−6.4%, 11.0%) 0.60