Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of SPS3 participants by living arrangements.
| Living alone; own home (n = 424) | With spouse/relatives/others (n = 1932) | p-value | |
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| Age, mean (sd) | 63 (11) | 63 (11) | 0.3 |
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| Male gender, % | 58 | 65 | 0.02 |
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| Ethnicity, % | < 0.001 | ||
| White, not Hispanic | 60 | 47 | |
| Hispanic | 16 | 39 | |
| Black | 22 | 12 | |
| Other or multiracial | 2 | 2 | |
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| Region, % | < 0.001 | ||
| United States | 57 | 43 | |
| Canada | 16 | 9 | |
| Mexico/Latin America | 12 | 32 | |
| Spain | 15 | 15 | |
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| Education, % | < 0.001 | ||
| 0-4 yrs | 7 | 14 | |
| 5-8 yrs | 15 | 18 | |
| 9-12 yrs | 39 | 37 | |
| any college | 40 | 31 | |
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| Marital status, % | < 0.001 | ||
| never married | 23 | 5 | |
| married/common law | 16 | 76 | |
| separated/divorced | 37 | 10 | |
| widowed | 25 | 9 | |
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| Mild cognitive impairment, % | 44 | 44 | 1.0 |
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| Barthel Index ≥ 95, % | 85 | 78 | 0.001 |
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| Modified Rankin Score, % | 0.2 | ||
| 0 | 17 | 15 | |
| 1 | 55 | 52 | |
| 2 | 23 | 25 | |
| 3+ | 6 | 9 | |
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| Stroke-specific Quality of Life score at 3 mo, mean (sd) (n = 2213) | 49 (9) | 48 (10) | 0.09 |
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| Prior symptomatic small subcortical stroke or TIA, % | 14 | 15 | 0.9 |
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| Frailty index | |||
| mean (sd) | 3.2 (1.2) | 3.4 (1.2) | 0.003 |
| 1-2 | 27 | 23 | 0.01 |
| 3 | 37 | 32 | |
| 4 | 23 | 27 | |
| 5+ | 13 | 18 | |
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| # Prescription medications, mean (sd) | 4.1 (2.3) | 4.0 (2.6) | 0.4 |
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| 0-2 | 28 | 28 | 0.4 |
| 3-6 | 56 | 59 | |
| 7+ | 16 | 13 | |