Table 1.
Demographics and language scores for aphasic patients at baseline.
| Aphasic patients | Healthy controls | |
|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||
| Age/years, median (range) | 62 (28–67) | 50 (25–80) |
| Education/years, median (range) | 9 (6–16) | 11 (6–18) |
| Sex, male (%) | 63.6 | 45.5 |
| Handedness, right (%) | 100 | 100 |
| Interval after onset/days, median (range) | ||
| Time to language test | 11 (1–21) | – |
| Time to scan/days | 13 (5–27) | – |
| Language performancea, median (range) | ||
| Comprehension | 25.22 (13.91–83.48) | – |
| Repetition | 6 (0–89.00) | – |
| Naming | 0 (0–87.10) | – |
| Reading | 6.67 (0.83–80) | – |
| Writing | 0 (0–55.24) | – |
| Aphasia quotient | 30.59 (18.48–73.58) | – |
| Aphasia type (%) | ||
| Global | 63.6 | – |
| Transcortical motor | 18.2 | – |
| Broca | 9.1 | – |
| Anomic | 9.1 | – |
aAll the language subtest scores were converted into a hundred-mark system.