Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics

	Total	Group D	Group A	Group P	P value
N	44	12	14	18
Sex (m/f)	30/14	9/3	9/5	12/6	0.829
Age (mean ± SD)	70.8 ± 11.8	69.6 ± 14.3	74.1 ± 12.1	69.1 ± 9.8	0.335
(median)	72.0	69.5	80.0	70.5
Hypertension	68.2%	66.7%	50%	83.3%	0.132
Dyslipidemia	29.5%	8.3%	28.6%	44.4%	0.104
Diabetes	38.6%	33.3%	21.4%	55.6%	0.131
Atrial fibrillation	34.1%	58.3%	57.1%	0%	< 0.001
Smoking	54.5%	66.7%	57.1%	44.4%	0.475
Stroke subtype (n)					< 0.001
CE	23	9	14	0
LAA	10	2	0	8
SVO	11	1	0	10

CE cardioembolism, LAA large artery atherothrombosis, SAO small vessel occlusion