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Table 2 Comparison of demographic and clinical by improvement of NIHSS with more than 30% at 7 days

From: Additional factors to corelate with a more than 30% NIHSS score improvement in patients 7 days after fibrinolytic and/or endovascular treatment for ischemic stroke

Improvement of NIH stroke scale with more than 30% at 7 days

 

No

Yes

p-values

Time to initiation of treatment (min), mean (SD)

172.7 (45.7)

157.7 (47.7)

0.079 b

Gender male, n (%)

38 (76.0%)

37 (51.4%)

0.006a

Prior diagnostic of hypertension, n (%)

33 (66.0%)

53 (73.6%)

0.365a

Prior diagnostic of stroke, n (%)

30 (60.0%)

25 (34.7%)

0.006a

Prior diagnostic of diabetes mellitus, n (%)

3 (6.0%)

10 (13.9%)

0.165a

Prior diagnostic of transient ischemic attack, n (%)

3 (6.0%)

2 (2.8%)

0.399a

Dyslipidemia, n (%)

25 (50.0%)

32 (44.4%)

0.545a

Atrial fibrillation, n (%)

15 (30.0%)

24 (33.3%)

0.689a

Prior diagnostic of myocadiac infarction, n (%)

2 (4.0%)

7 (9.7%)

0.306a

Prior diagnostic of valvopathies, n (%)

1 (2.0%)

2 (2.8%)

0.999a

Prior anticoagulant treatment, n (%)

3 (6.0%)

3 (4.2%)

0.688a

Prior antiplatelet therapy, n (%)

13 (26.0%)

25 (34.7%)

0.306a

Age, mean (SD)

67.5 (12.4)

67.2 (11.9)

0.890b

Systolic BP at admission, mean (SD)

160.2 (21.1)

151.9 (21.7)

0.037b

Diastolic BP at admission, mean (SD)

81.1 (13.7)

79.9 (12.3)

0.615b

No of platelets (thousands, mean (SD)

207.2 (63.8)

218.4 (57.7)

0.312b

Hemoglobin, mean (SD)

14.1 (1.6)

13.5 (1.6)

0.055b

Total cholesterol, mean (SD)

191.2 (46.9)

185.8 (45.5)

0.539b

ASPECTS at admission, mean (SD)

9.2 (1.0)

9.7 (0.7)

0.008b

INR, median (IQR)

1.0 (0.15)

1.0 (0.13)

0.138c

Glycemia, median (IQR)

153.5 (85)

119.0 (42)

< 0.001c

Creatinine, median (IQR)

0.9 (0.3)

0.9 (0.24)

0.313c

Triglycerides, median (IQR)

102.5 (67)

105.0 (66)

0.855c

  1. a chi-square test or Fisher Exact test, as appropriate
  2. bindependent samples t-test
  3. cMann—Whitney test