Table 1.

The main characteristics of studies for the prognostic role of the NLR in stroke meta-analysis

Characteristics of the included studies
Author years	Country	N (F/M)	Age, year	Sample time	Optimal cutoff value	Outcome measure	etiology of stroke	treatment modality
Maestrini et al. 2015	France	846 (430/416)	Mean 71	onset< 4.5 h	4.8	mRS at 3 mo	CI	IT
Qun et al. 2017	China	143 (80/63)	Mean 70	admission	2.995	mRS at 3 mo	CI	AP
Xue et al. 2017	China	289 (107/173)	Mean 61.8	admission	2.39	mRS at 3 mo	CI	AG
Duan et al. 2018	China	616 (368/248)	Mean 66	admission < 24 h	7	mRS at 3 mo	LVOS	ET and IT
Goyal et al. 2018	greece	293 (147/146)	Mean 62	admission	NR	mRS at 3 mo	LVOS	MT
Kocaturk et al. 2018	Turkey	107 (57/50)	Mean 67	admission	4.7	death at 3 mo	CI	IT or AP or MT
Malhotra et al. 2018	USA	657 (333/324)	Mean 64.3	admission	2.2	mRS at 3 mo	CI	IT
Lattanzi et al. 2016	Italy	177 (63/114)	Mean 67.1	admission	4.58	mRS at 3 mo	ICH	NR
Tao et al. 2017	China	336 (216/120)	Mean 58.5	admission	4.58 to 7.3 (report)	mRS at 3 mo	sICH	SE
Zhang et al. 2018	China	104 (80/24)	Mean 50.4	admission < 24 h	6.46	mRS at 3 mo	ICH	SE
Sun et al. 2017	China	352 (234/118)	Mean 64.2	admission < 24 h	NR	mRS at 3 mo	ICH	WSE
Qin et al. 2019	China	213 (155/58)	Mean 50	admission < 24 h	NR	mRS at 3 mo	sICH	AG
Giede-Jeppe et al. 2019	Germany	319 (98/221)	Mean 51	admission	7.05	mRS at 3 mo	aSAH	NR

NR not reported, ICH intracerebral hemorrhage, CI cerebral ischemia, mo month