Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients.

	CS	non-CS	P -value
	(n = 75)	(n = 147)
Age, years	52 (43~56)	42 (32~53)	< 0.001
Male sex	40 (53.3%)	68 (46.3%)	0.319
Hypertension	21 (28.0%)	27 (18.4%)	0.099
Diabetes mellitus	3 (4.0%)	4 (2.7%)	0.606
Dyslipidemia	2 (2.7%)	10 (6.8%)	0.197
Atrial fibrillation	0 (0.0%)	5 (3.4%)	0.106
Coronary heart disease	5 (6.7%)	3 (2.0%)	0.080
RoPE score	7 (6~8)	6 (4~7)	< 0.001

CS, cryptogenic stroke; RoPE, Risk of Paradoxical Embolism.