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Table 5 Baseline characteristics of patients with vertebral artery origin stenosis or acute lacunar infarcts

From: Long-term outcome of vertebral artery origin stenosis in patients with acute ischemic stroke

 

Vertebral artery origin stenosis (n = 137)

Acute lacunar infarcts (n = 171)

P-value

Age, years (mean ± SD)

70.4 ± 10.3

63.8 ± 11.5

< 0.001

Male (n,%)

73 (53.3)

97 (56.7)

0.566

Hypertension (n,%)

96 (70.1)

119 (69.6)

1.000

Diabetes (n,%)

66 (48.2)

75 (43.9)

0.491

Hyperlipidemia (n,%)

56 (40.9)

57 (33.3)

0.191

Atrial fibrillation (n,%)

6. (4.4)

5 (2.9)

0.547

Smoking (n,%)

61 (44.5)

90 (52.6)

0.170

Previous stroke history (n,%)

34 (24.8)

41 (24.0)

0.894

Coronary arterial disease

27 (19.7)

41 (24.4)

0.337

Peripheral arterial disease

5 (3.6)

6 (3.6)

1.000

ESRS (mean ± SD)

3.2 ± 1.5

2.9 ± 1.5

0.126

ESRS > 3

52 (38.0)

58 (33.9)

0.475

  1. ESRS Essen Stroke Risk Score.
  2. Published data of patients who had acute lacunar infarcts were used for the comparison; data used with personal permission [14].