Table 2.

Paresis within six months of acute stroke

	Within six months of acute stroke (observation period 1)
	Survivors (n = 910)		Deaths (n = 257)
	n	% (95% CI)	n	% (95% CI)
No paresis	368	40.4 (37.2–43.7)	64	24.9 (19.7–30.7)
Spastic paresis (G81.1, G82.1, G82.4)	93	10.2 (8.3–12.4)	33	12.8 (9.0–17.6)
Flaccid paresis (G81.0, G82.0, G82.3)	312	34.3 (31.2–37.5)	132	51.4 (45.1–57.6)
Unspecified paresis#	137	15.1 (12.8–17.6)	28	10.9 (7.4–15.4)
ICD-10 diagnoses
G81 Hemiplegia	489	53.7 (50.4–57.0)	186	72.4 (66.5–77.8)
G82 Paraplegia and tetraplegia	8	0.9 (0.4–1.7)	5	1.9 (0.6–4.5)
G83 Other paralytic syndromes	45	5.0 (3.6–6.6)	2	0.8 (0.1–2.8)

Notes: n = 1167 patients with stroke and no diagnosis of paresis up to six months before stroke.

^#ICD-10: G81.2, G82.2, G82.5, G83 without G83.4, G83.8.

Abbreviations: ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision; CI, confidence interval.