Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data in patients with history of ischemic stroke and controls.

	Patients (n = 107)	Control (n = 107)	p
Age	50.1 ± 11.8	47.3 ± 8.7	0.049 *
Gender (M/F)	50/57	53/54	0.7844
Hypertension	83	54	0.0001
Hypercholesterolemia	77	52	0.0008
Diabetes	36	24	0.0941
Smoking (current)	37	35	0.8850
Smoking (former)	20	20	0.8608
Daily alcohol consumption	27	23	0.6279

p - values for a two-sided χ² - test; except for * for t-test.