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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2009 Oct 15;40(12):3834–3840. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.561787

Table 1.

Demographics, vascular risk factors, etiology and treatment of stroke and TIA patients

Stroke or TIA patients (N) 675
Age, mean ± SD, years 68.6 ± 15.3
Female 323 (48%)
Risk Factors:
 HTN 415 (62%)
 DM 122 (18%)
 CAD 155 (23%)
 CHF 46 (6.8%)
 PVD 25 (3.7%)
 Hyperlipidemia 193 (29%)
 Smoking 207 (31%)
 Atrial Fibrillation 145 (22%)
Baseline Rankin Score
 0 476 (71%)
 1 78 (12%)
 2 51 (7.6%)
 3 40 (5.9%)
 4 15 (2.2%)
 5 4 (0.6%)
 Not recorded 11 (1.6%)
SSS-TOAST Stroke Etiology
 Cardioembolic 262 (39%)
 Large Artery 111 (17%)
 Small Vessel 63 (9.4%)
 Other Mechanism 49 (7.3%)
 Undetermined
  More Than One Mechanism 40 (5.9%)
  Cryptogenic Embolic 56 (8.3%)
  Cryptogenic Not Embolic 70 (10%)
  Incomplete Workup 23 (3.4%)
  Missing data 1 (0.1%)
Treatment
 IV t-PA 109 (16%)
 IA Treatment 36 (5.3%)
 IV and IA treatment 18 (2.7%)