Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients treated in the emergency department
| Demographics | |
| age (years) (SD) | 40.7 (16.3) |
| sex (female) | 192 (78.7) |
| Medical history | |
| negative | 157 (64.3) |
| hypertension | 27 (11.1) |
| psychiatric disorders | 21 (8.6) |
| thyroid disorders | 17 (7.0) |
| hematologic disorders | 10 (4.1) |
| dyslipidemia | 9 (3.7) |
| DM type 2 | 8 (3.3) |
| cerebrovascular diseases | 7 (2.9) |
| COPD/asthma | 4 (1.6) |
| ischemic heart disease | 3 (1.2) |
| solid tumor | 3 (1.2) |
| Time of ED presentation | |
| 08:00–15:59 | 147 (60.3) |
| 16:00–23:59 | 79 (32.4) |
| 00:00–07:59 | 18 (7.4) |
| Headache onset | |
| days bedore ED visit | 1.9 (5.7) |
| Triage codes | |
| white | 1 (0.4) |
| green | 186 (76.2) |
| yellow | 56 (23.0) |
| red | 1 (0.4) |
| Vital signs | |
| systolic BP (mmHg) | 130 (16.9) |
| diastolic BP (mmHg) | 77 (10.6) |
| heart rate (bpm) | 78,910.60 |
| temperature (°C) | 36.6 |
| oxygen saturation (%) | 98 (1.4) |
| Aura | |
| reason to access ED | 40 (16.4) |
| first aura in their life | 16 of 40 (40.0) |
| ED times in min, mean (SD) | |
| door-to-doctor time | 139 (118.4) |
| time of care | 241 (269.8) |
| ED length of stay | 381 (307.7) |
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