Table 1.
Age and sex distribution in stroke subtypes (N = 276).
| Variable | Type of stroke |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ischemic n (%) N = 166 |
Haemorrhagic n (%) N = 110 |
Total N (%) N = 276 |
Chi square | p-value | |
| Age (in years) | |||||
| 40–64 | 70 (60.9) | 45 (39.1) | 115 (41.7) | 0.043 | 0.835 |
| ≥ 65 | 96 (59.6) | 65 (40.4) | 161 (58.3) | ||
| Mean age ± SD | 67.9 ± 13.8 | 66.4 ± 6.5 | 67.3 ± 11.1 | 1.126t | 0.261 |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 106 (63.5) | 61 (36.5) | 167 (60.5) | 1.954 | 0.162 |
| Female | 60 (55.5) | 49 (45.0) | 109 (39.5) | ||
t – Independent t-test.
The majority of the patients, 226 (82.0%) and 166 (60.0%) presented with hemiparesis(plegia) and cranial nerve deficit, respectively. Besides, most of the patients who suffered Ischemic stroke (IS) presented with headache (47.6) and aphasia (26.5%). Also, most of the patients who suffered haemorrhagic stroke (HS) presented with headaches (48.2%) and altered sensorium (47.3%). There was a statistically significant difference between the stroke subtype in the studied patients and altered sensorium (p < 0.001) and vomiting (p < 0.001), as seen in Table 2.