Table 1.
Demographic and clinical features of ischemic stroke patients and healthy subjects enrolled in the study.
| Ischemic Stroke Patients | n = 71 |
| Demographic features | |
| N° female/male | 35/36 |
| Age | 78.31 ± 13.13 |
| Hypertension | 48 |
| Diabetes | 12 |
| Smoke | 10 |
| Atrial fibrillation | 26 |
| OCSP patients classification | |
| TACI | 19 |
| PACI | 36 |
| POCI | 8 |
| LACI | 8 |
| NIHSS | |
| Slight impairment (1–5) | 26 |
| Moderate impairment (6–14) | 26 |
| Severe impairment (15–25) | 19 |
| Very severe impairment (>25) | 0 |
| TOAST Classification | |
| LAA | 20 |
| CE | 34 |
| SVA | 7 |
| Other | 1 |
| Undetermined | 9 |
| Healthy Subjects | n = 70 |
| Demographic features | |
| N° female/male | 31/39 |
| Age | 61.24 ± 12.17 |
OCSP classification: Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project classification; TACI: total anterior circulation infarcts; PACI: partial anterior circulation infarcts; LACI lacunar circulation infarcts; POCI: posterior circulation infarcts; NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale or NIH Stroke Scale; TOAST classification: Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment classification; LAA: large-artery atherosclerosis; CE: cardioembolism; SVA: small-vessel occlusion.