Table 3. 5-year hospital care costs after index stroke, by TOAST classification.

	Complete cases		Censor-adjusted
	No.	Mean costs, $ (95% CI)	No.	Mean costs, $ (95% CI)
Cardioembolism	158	30,086 (24,778-35,395)	182	30,175 (26,003-34,416)
Large artery atherosclerosis	39	25,708 (15,778-35,638)	53	24,941 (18,092-32,241)
Small vessel occlusion	88	28,084 (19,931-36,236)	109	26,872 (21,316-32,709)
Other determined aetiology	5	18,209 (4,947-31,472)	7	16,725 (11,570-21,997)
Undetermined/unknown aetiology	200	25,000 (20,433-29,566)	273	22,570 (19,453-25,873)
Multiple possible aetiologies	9	32,883 (11,564-54,202)	12	28,863 (16,703-41,733)
Primary intracerebral haemorrhage	40	14,263 (6,983-21,541)	54	19,641 (13,814-26,136)
Subarachnoid haemorrhage	33	29,059 (15,417-42,702)	39	33,708 (23,833-44,661)

ANOVA test for differences in costs by stroke subtype: p=0.0005