Table 2.
Clinical features of ischemic stroke patients stratified according to telomere length.
| Telomere length | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ≤ 5.5 kb (n = 59) | > 5.5 kb (n = 104) | ||
| Age | 77 (67–84) | 67 (52–74) | < 0.001 |
| Female gender | 35 (59%) | 45 (43%) | 0.049 |
| Hypertension | 50 (85%) | 73 (70%) | 0.038 |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 26 (44%) | 34 (33%) | 0.148 |
| Coronary artery disease | 26 (44%) | 27 (26%) | 0.018 |
| Hyperlipidemia | 32 (54%) | 61 (59%) | 0.584 |
| Active smoking | 10 (17%) | 25 (24%) | 0.289 |
| Admission NIHSS score | 6 (3–17) | 4 (2–9) | 0.039 |
| Admission DWI lesion volume (mL) | 6.0 (1.1–30.7) | 6.4 (0.9–28.1) | 0.585 |
| CCS stroke subtype | 0.221 | ||
| Large artery atherosclerosis | 11 (19%) | 18 (17%) | |
| Cardio-aortic embolism | 23 (39%) | 30 (29%) | |
| Small artery occlusion | 5 (9%) | 6 (6%) | |
| Other causes | 0 (0%) | 6 (6%) | |
| Undetermined | 20 (34%) | 44 (42%) | |
| 90-day mRS ≤ 2 | 26 (44%) | 66 (63%) | 0.016 |
| Death | 12 (20%) | 8 (8%) | 0.018 |