Table 1.
Demographics, risk factors and etiologies
| N (%) |
P value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (n = 411) | Male (n = 282) | Female (n = 129) | |||||
| Demographics | |||||||
| Age, mean (SD), y | 38.2 | (8.1) | 38.7 | (8.2) | 36.9 | (7.8) | 0.039* |
| Time from onset to admission (day) | 7 | (2,30) | 5 | (2,20) | 15 | (3,43) | 0.000* |
| NIHSS#severity at admission | 3 | (1,6) | 3 | (1,6) | 2 | (1,6.5) | 0.319 |
| Risk factors## | |||||||
| ≥ 1 risk factor | 317 | (77.5) | 248 | (88.3) | 69 | (53.9) | 0.000* |
| Traditional Risk Factors | |||||||
| Hypertension | 176 | (43) | 142 | (50.5) | 34 | (26.6) | 0.000* |
| Diabetes mellitus | 70 | (17.1) | 58 | (20.6) | 12 | (9.4) | 0.005* |
| Hyperlipidemia | 152 | (37.2) | 123 | (43.8) | 29 | (22.7) | 0.000* |
| Smoking | 168 | (41.1) | 162 | (57.7) | 6 | (4.7) | 0.000* |
| Family history | 35 | (8.6) | 27 | (9.6) | 8 | (6.3) | 0.176 |
| Atrial fibrillation | 5 | (1.2) | 4 | (1.4) | 1 | (0.8) | 0.79 |
| Other risk factors | |||||||
| Hyperhomocysteinemia | 114 | (27.9) | 100 | (35.6) | 14 | (10.9) | 0.000* |
| Oral contraceptive | 3 | (0.7) | 0 | (0) | 3 | (2.3) | 0.030* |
| Migraine | 12 | (2.9) | 7 | (2.5) | 5 | (3.9) | 0.638 |
| Etiology | |||||||
| Large artery atherosclerosis | 162 | (39.4) | 137 | (48.6) | 25 | (19.4) | 0.000* |
| Cardioembolism | 28 | (6.8) | 18 | (6.4) | 10 | (7.8) | 0.609 |
| Small artery occlusion | 32 | (7.8) | 28 | (9.9) | 4 | (3.1) | 0.017* |
| Other determined etiology | 119 | (29) | 54 | (19.1) | 65 | (50.4) | 0.000* |
| Undetermined etiology | 70 | (17) | 45 | (16) | 25 | (19.4) | 0.392 |
#
NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.
##
One patient's data was missed in both sexes.