Table 1.

Characteristics and of stroke and TIA patients included and excluded from the analyses

	Included, N=2,975	Excluded, N=974
Age	72 (18–98)	77 (0–99)
Black	516 (17.3)	149 (15.3)
Non-black	2,459 (82.7)	825 (84.7)
Female	1,614 (54.3)	619 (63.6)
Male	1,361 (45.7)	355 (36.4)
Prior stroke	774 (26.0)	295 (30.3)
Resides at home	2,904 (97.6)	544 (57.0)
Resides elsewhere	71 (2.4)	24 (2.5)
Resides at nursing home	0 (0.0)	378 (39.6)
Unknown residence	0 (0.0)	9 (0.9)
Stroke at place of residence	2,731 (91.8)	507 (53.1)
Stroke at work	90 (3.0)	2 (0.2)
Stroke elsewhere	154 (5.2)	112 (11.7)
Stroke in hospital	0 (0.0)	280 (29.3)
Unknown site of stroke	0 (0.0)	54 (5.7)
Estimated NIHSS	5 (0–42)	8 (0–42)
Pre-stroke Rankin	0 (0–5)	3 (0–5)
Stroke type
ICH	239 (8.0)	91 (9.3)
Infarct	1,805 (60.7)	663 (68.1)
SAH	83 (2.8)	17 (1.7)
TIA	846 (28.4)	199 (20.4)
Unknown	2 (0.1)	4 (0.4)

Data are medians (ranges) or frequencies (percents)