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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Sci. 2016 Dec 18;373:41–44. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.12.025

Table 3.

Baseline demographics and clinical outcomes by smoking status and antiplatelet group.

Currentsmokers (n = 1066)
p-Value Never-smokers (n = 726)
p-Value
Clopidogrel (n = 383) Aspirin (n = 683) Clopidogrel (n = 240) Aspirin (n = 486)
Demographics
 Age (yr, mean ± SD) 58.27 ± 11.65 59.40 ± 11.49 0.128 64.96 ± 12.73 61.71 ± 13.84 0.002
 Male (%) 367 (95.8) 650 (95.2) 0.625 98 (40.8) 220 (45.3) 0.257
Clinical History (n, %)
 Hypertension 248 (64.8) 434 (63.5) 0.693 181 (75.4) 313 (64.4) 0.003
 Diabetes 123 (32.1) 181 (26.5) 0.051 83 (35.0) 143(29.4) 0.127
 Hyperlipidemia 176 (46.0) 293 (42.9) 0.335 92(38.3) 172 (35.4) 0.438
 Prior coronary heart disease 49 (12.8) 83 (12.2) 0.760 40 (16.7) 64 (13.2) 0.206
Primary outcome (n, %)
 Secondary ischemic stroke 12 (3.1) 34 (5.0) 0.155 4 (1.7) 5 (1.0) 0.488
 Myocardial infarction 2 (0.5) 8 (1.2) 0.292 1 (0.4) 0 0.331
 All-cause death 0 2 (0.3) 0.289 0 0 n/a
 All primary events 14 (3.7) 44 (6.4) 0.096 5 (2.1) 5 (1.0) 0.312
Safety endpoint (n, %)
 Bleeding events 9 (2.3) 12 (1.8) 0.504 1 (0.4) 2 (0.4) 1.000