Table 2.
Baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale sub-item scores.
| Item | NIHSS score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| #1A Level of consciousness, n (%) | 64 (74.4) | 18 (29.9) | 4 (4.7) | ||
| #1B Questions, n (%) | 39 (44.3) | 10 (11.6) | 37 (43) | ||
| #1C Commands, n (%) | 52 (60.5) | 4 (4.7) | 30 (34.9) | ||
| #2 Gaze, n (%) | 37 (43.0) | 31 (36.0) | 18 (20.9) | ||
| #3 Visual fields, n (%) | 30 (34.9) | 6 (7.0) | 50 (58.1) | ||
| #4 Facial palsy, n (%) | 4 (4.7) | 24 (27.9) | 58 (67.4) | ||
| #5 Motor arm, n (%) | 6 (7.0) | 16 (18.6) | 14 (16.3) | 33 (38.4) | 17 (19.8) |
| #6 Motor leg, n (%) | 8 (9.3) | 24 (27.9) | 19 (22.1) | 30 (34.9) | 5 (5.8) |
| #7 Ataxia, n (%) | 83 (96.5) | 1 (1.2) | 2 (2.3) | ||
| #8 Sensory, n (%) | 30 (34.9) | 44 (51.2) | 12 (14.0) | ||
| #9 Language, n (%) | 45 (52.3) | 4 (4.7) | 5 (5.8) | 32 (37.2) | |
| #10 Dysarthria, n (%) | 5 (5.8) | 49 (57.0) | 32 (37.2) | ||
| #11 Extinction/inattention, n (%) | 53 (61.6) | 8 (9.3) | 25 (29.1) | ||
NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.