Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics based on the severity of stroke

	Mild (N = 43)	Moderate (N = 134)	Severe (N = 105)
Age (years)	59.72 ± 10.68	65.46 ± 13.185	67.01 ± 12.38
Gender
Female	18	48	61
Male	25	86	44
Medical condition
Hypertension	56.41%	62.59%	66.01%
Diabetes	23.07%	20.61%	27.18%
Hyperlipidemia	30.76%	22.90%	26.21%
Smoking current smoker	30.76%	25.95%	17.47%
Past history of smoking	38.46%	26.71%	19.41%
History of past ischemic attacks	2.56%	9.92%	12.62%
Congestive heart failure	10.25%	6.10%	12.62%
Arrhythmia	2.56%	9.16%	22.33%
Ischemic heart disease	15.38%	19.84%	22.33%
Imaging modalities
Ejection fraction	48.8 ± 1.8	50.36 ± 0.96	48.47 ± 1.25
Pathologic CT scan finding	0%	2.1%	10.38%
Laboratory tests
White blood cell count	7724.00 ± 444.1	7828.57 ± 296.5	9110.20 ± 900.7
Hemoglobin (mg/dl)	13.50 ± 0.46	14.15 ± 0.22	13.32 ± 0.28
Hematocrit (percent)	39.83 ± 1.01	42.09 ± 0.57	40.32 ± 0.70
Platelet	246200 ± 19363	246714.29 ± 10291.12	239469.39 ± 10080.33
RDW (percent)	13.78 ± 0.30	13.59 ± 0.15	12.40 ± 0.56
PDW (percent)	12.72 ± 0.32	12.50 ± 0.29	12.70 ± 0.29
PT	13.16 ± 0.14	13.22 ± 0.10	13.53 ± 0.13
PTT	28.0 ± 0.40	27.75 ± 0.34	29.57 ± 0.98
INR	1.03 ± 0.01	1.07 ± 0.01	1.11 ± 0.01
Blood glucose (mg/dl)	159.08 ± 17.83	134.26 ± 6.32	8481.29 ± 6369.74
Creatinine (mg/dl)	1.03 ± 0.04	1.00 ± 0.02	1.06 ± 0.10
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)	174.00 ± 8.46	178.54 ± 4.35	156.33 ± 6.21
Triglyceride (mg/dl)	153.56 ± 12.64	127.49 ± 7.33	119.41 ± 8.33
HDL (mg/dl)	37.52 ± 1.61	43.00 ± 1.58	40.63 ± 1.44
LDL (mg/dl)	110.48 ± 9.99	111.06 ± 3.88	93.92 ± 4.31
tPA injection related results
Time duration since symptom onset (hour)	102.48 ± 9.25	103.99 ± 5.24	92.61 ± 6.44
Door to needle time (hour)	67.12 ± 5.00	52.09 ± 3.73	61.98 ± 5.16
NIHSS after 36 h	3.03 ± 2.40	6.48 ± 5.124	17.89 ± 9.20
NIHSS after 7 days	2.34 ± 2.75	5.46 ± 5.72	15.28 ± 8.88
MRS after 7 days	1.45 ± 1.30	2.11 ± 1.40	4.01 ± 1.45