Table 1.
Demographic features of the 67 patients with cortical, and 67 with lacunar stroke subtypes included in the study
| Stroke subtype |
Test p value Wilcoxon | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cortical | lacunar | ||||||||
| n | median | min., max. | IQR | n | median | min., max. | IQR | ||
| Age, years | 67 | 70.1 | 40.9, 91.9 | 60.6–75.3 | 67 | 64.5 | 36.3, 85.9 | 55.2–71.2 | 0.011 |
| NIHSS | 66 | 1 | 0, 7 | 0-2.0 | 67 | 1 | 0, 9 | 0-2.0 | 0.37 |
| N | n | % | N | n | % | χ2 | |||
| Sex | |||||||||
| F | 67 | 9 | 13.4 | 67 | 17 | 25.4 | 0.081 | ||
| M | 58 | 86.6 | 50 | 74.6 | |||||
| TIA | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 7 | 10.4 | 66 | 5 | 7.6 | 0.56 | ||
| No | 60 | 89.6 | 61 | 92.4 | |||||
| Previous stroke | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 7 | 10.4 | 66 | 2 | 3.0 | 0.089 | ||
| No | 60 | 89.6 | 64 | 97.0 | |||||
| IHD | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 15 | 22.4 | 67 | 8 | 11.9 | 0.11 | ||
| No | 52 | 77.6 | 59 | 88.1 | |||||
| PVD | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 4 | 6.0 | 67 | 2 | 3.0 | 0.40 | ||
| No | 63 | 94.0 | 65 | 97.0 | |||||
| Diabetes | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 6 | 9.0 | 67 | 11 | 16.4 | 0.19 | ||
| No | 61 | 91.0 | 56 | 83.6 | |||||
| Hypertension | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 41 | 61.2 | 67 | 35 | 52.2 | 0.30 | ||
| No | 26 | 38.8 | 32 | 47.8 | |||||
| AF | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 8 | 11.9 | 67 | 2 | 3.0 | 0.049 | ||
| No | 59 | 88.1 | 65 | 97.0 | |||||
| Carotid stenosis >50% | |||||||||
| Yes | 57 | 11 | 19.3 | 61 | 6 | 9.8 | 0.14 | ||
| No | 46 | 80.7 | 55 | 90.1 | |||||
| Old stroke lesion on imaging | |||||||||
| Yes | 67 | 24 | 35.8 | 67 | 24 | 35.8 | >0.999 | ||
| No | 43 | 64.2 | 43 | 64.2 | |||||
IQR = Interquartile range; TIA = transient ischaemic attack; IHD = ischaemic heart disease; PVD = peripheral vascular disease; AF = atrial fibrillation.