Table 2.
Risk factors among ischemic stroke subtypes.
| Risk factors | Large artery atherosclerosis | Small vessel disease | Cardio embolic | Other etiologies | Undetermined etiology | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | p-value | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | p-value | |
| Males | 85 (60,7) | 0.55† | 40 (61,5) | 0,64† | 3 (60) | 0,67‡ | 0 (0) | 0,17‡ | 11 (47,8) | 0,25† |
| Females | 55 (39,7) | 25 (38,5) | |
2 (40) | 2 (100) | |
12 (52,2) | |||
| Age > 65 years | 53 (37,9) | 0,25† | 20 (30,8) | 0,41† | 2 (40) | 0,57‡ | 0 (0) | 0,42‡ | 7 (30,4) | 0,64† |
| Hypertension | 118 (84,3) | 0,66† | 60 (92,3) | 0,023 † | 4 (80) | 0,6‡ | 1 (50) | 0,3‡ | 13 (56,5) | <0,001 † |
| Diabetes | 77 (55) | 0,016 † | 27 (41,5) | 0,19† | 0 (0) | 0,06‡ | 1 (50) | 0,74‡ | 9 (39,1) | 0,34† |
| Dyslipidemia | 72 (51,4) | 0,77† | 32 (49,2) | 0,79† | 0 (0) | 0,028‡ | 1 (50) | 0,74‡ | 14 (60,9) | 0,3† |
| MI | 9 (6,4) | 0,46† | 2 (3,1) | 0,31† | 1 (20) | 0,25‡ | 0 (0) | 0,89‡ | 1 (4,3) | 0,79† |
| AF | 3 (2,1) | 0,46‡ | 0 (0) | 0,14‡ | 3 (60) | <0,001 ‡ | 0 (0) | 0,95‡ | 0 (0) | 0,41† |
†Chi-square test; ‡Fisher's exact test.