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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Emerg Med. 2010 Jan 28;28(5):607–612. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2009.02.016

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)