Table 1.

Studies included after screening based on inclusion and exclusion criteria with demographic information. NR indicated that a value was not reported or was not reported as raw data that could be used for further analysis.

Paper	Stroke/STEMI/Both	Pre-pandemic study period (days)	Pandemic study period (days)	Total number of patients	Number of men	Number of women	Mean age (yr)
Velez et al. [20]	Stroke	20	50	212	97	115	64.5
Velilla-Alonso et al. [21]	Stroke	61	61	195	105	90	72
Saban et al. [22]	Stroke	177	60	14,626	NR	NR	NR
Uchino et al. [23]	Stroke	67	24	902	NR	NR	NR
Rinkel et al. [24]	Stroke	48	48	716	373	343	69.5
Paliwal et al. [25]	Stroke	99	99	867	446	421	70.75
Teo et al. [26]	Stroke	60	61	162	77	85	71.85
Pero et al. [27]	Stroke	365	364	594	305	289	71
Paolucci et al. [28]	Stroke	62	31	316	NR	NR	NR
Aboul et al. [29]	Stroke	61	61	385	202	183	64
Walker et al. [30]	Both	36	73	53,683	25,017	28,666	50
Ben-Haim et al. [31]	Both	88	88	447	221	226	74.2
Lee et al. [32]	Both	135	139	NR	NR	NR	NR
Mitra et al. [33]	Both	29	29	109	83	26	72.9
Su et al. [34]	STEMI	249	63	158	102	24	60.1
Scholz et al. [35]	STEMI	93	31	15,800	11,558	4242	69.1
Choudhary et al. [36]	STEMI	31	31	1777	1314	463	61.4
Rangé et al. [37]	STEMI	424	31	2064	1563	501	NR
Matsubara et al. [38]	STEMI	338	337	295	167	128	72.7
Sum		2443.0	1681.0	93,308.0	41,630.0	35,802.0	943.5
Mean		128.6	88.5	5183.8	2775.3	2386.8	67.4
Median		67.0	61.0	520.5	221.0	226.0	70.1