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. 2022 Mar 22;22:379. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07614-1

Table 2.

Characteristics of included participants by train and test population, Vancouver, Canada, 2008–2016. P-values reported for t-test (age) and Fisher exact test (all other variables)

Train Test P-value
N 615 114
Data years 2008–2015 2016
Age – mean (SD) 72.1 (9.1) 71.3 (9.7) 0.4
Female – N (%) 207 (33.7%) 33 (28.9%) 0.4
In metro – N (%) 482 (78.4%) 89 (78.1%) 1
Symptom type – N (%) 0.02
 Asymptomatic 189 (30.7%) 29 (25.4%)
 Retinal 111 (18.0%) 22 (19.3%)
 TIA 198 (32.2%) 27 (23.7%)
 Stroke 117 (19.0%) 36 (31.6%)