Table 1.

Patient characteristics of the four studies included in the meta-analysis.

	Yang et al. (DIRECT-MT)		Zi et al. (DEVT)		Sukuzi et al. (SKIP)		Treurniet et al. (MR CLEAN NO IV)
Treatment Arm	MT	MT±tPA	MT	MT±tPA	MT	MT±tPA	MT	MT±tPA
Number of patients	327	329	116	118	101	103	273	266
Age, years (median)	69	69	70	70	74	76	N/A	N/A
Sex	189 M, 138 F	181 M, 148 F	66 M, 50 F	66 M, 52 F	56 M, 45 F	72 M, 31 F	N/A	N/A
Baseline NIHSS (median)	17	17	16	16	19	17	N/A	N/A