Table III.

Correlation of NIHSS score at admission and inflammatory indicators.

Inflammatory indicator	N	Spearman's rho	P-value
Body temperature
On admission	62	0.115	0.250
Post-stroke day 1	62	0.122	0.195
Post-stroke day 3	62	0.558	<0.001
Post-stroke day 5	62	0.152	0.145
Post-stroke day 7	62	0.136	0.182
Leukocyte
On admission	62	0.145	0.150
Post-stroke day 1	62	0.232	0.035
Post-stroke day 3	62	0.355	0.002
Post-stroke day 5	62	0.150	0.166
Post-stroke day 7	62	0.130	0.194
hs-CRP
On admission	62	0.155	0.139
Post-stroke day 1	62	0.162	0.110
Post-stroke day 3	62	0.625	<0.001
Post-stroke day 5	62	0.457	<0.001
Post-stroke day 7	62	0.340	0.003

NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.