Table 1.
Patient demographics with the actual number in each group except mean age and aneurysm size
Men | Women | ||||||||
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No treatment | Embolisation | Surgery | Total | No treatment | Embolisation | Surgery | Total | p | |
N | 25 | 22 | 18 | 65 | 21 | 34 | 20 | 75 | |
Mean age at diagnosis (years) | 57.4 | 49.0 | 49.6 | 52.1 | 64.1 | 52.5 | 50.0 | 54.6 | 0.1 |
Hypertension | 13 | 7 | 8 | 28 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 1.0 |
Diabetes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1.0 |
Hypercholesterolaemia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0.7 |
Previous stroke | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 1.0 |
Other cardiovascular disease | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 | |
Anticoagulant therapy | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 0.5 |
Aneurysm with neurological (mass) symptom | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 0.3 |
Anterior circulation aneurysm location | 19 | 23 | 19 | 61 | 13 | 32 | 23 | 68 | |
Vertebrobasilar aneurysm location | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
Mean fundus size (mm) | 15.5 | 8.2 | 10.3 | 11.4 | 13.2 | 10.7 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 1.0 |
Multiple aneurysms | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 0.3 |
Death at follow-up | 16 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 24 | |
Neurological death | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 13 | |
SAH | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
Other cerebrovascular than SAH | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
Cardiovascular | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
Cancer | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Other | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
SAH, subarachnoid haemorrhage.