. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Acta Neurol Scand. 2017 Oct 3;137(1):133–141. doi: 10.1111/ane.12847

Table 1.

Characteristics of the SIREN small vessel disease ischemic stroke case-control samples after QC

Variable	Status/Values	A: Controls (N=483)	B: Cases (N=154)	P-value comparing A and B
Baseline Age (mean ± SD)		60.26 (± 12.56)	61.36 (± 12.16)	0.341
SEX		236/247	72/82	0.7164
Sickle-Cell Status (Risk/No-Risk)		100/383	28/126	0.5723
Hypertension (Risk/No-Risk)		201/281	132/16	<0.0001
Dyslipidemia (Risk/No-Risk)		282/201	133/18	<0.0001
Diabetes (Risk/No-Risk)		67/415	63/88	<0.0001
Waist-hip Ratio (Risk/No-Risk)		344/134	114/19	0.0018
Atrial Fibrillation* (Yes/No)		0/483	3/94	0.0046
Tobacco Use* (Yes / No)		1/476	6/144	0.001
Ethnicity	Akan	68/80	16/30	0.2443
	Ga/Adangbe/Igbo/Gonja/Bono/Busanga/Hausa	49/57	14/17	0.9166
	Yoruba	119/109	41/35	0.8945