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Table 1 Demographic profile, key risk factors, and clinical and etiological classification of monitored patients

From: Relationship of spontaneous microembolic signals to risk stratification, recurrence, severity, and mortality of ischemic stroke: a prospective study

Variables

n

%

Demographic profile

 Male

70

63.1

 Age (years)

68 (33–97)

Race

 White

90

81.1

 Black/Asian

21

19.9

Risk factors

 Hypertension

93

83.8

 Smoking

60

54.1

 Obesity

6

5.4

 Diabetes

30

27

 Dyslipidemia

17

15.3

 Chagas disease

8

7.2

 Prior stroke

36

32.4

 Congestive heart failure

8

7.2

 Prior AMI

11

9.9

 CAD

12

10.8

 Depression

6

5.4

 Atrial fibrillation

29

26.1

 Atrial flutter

4

3.6

 PFO

2

1.8

 Extracardiac shunt

1

0.9

 Thrombolysis

26

23.4

 Antiplatelets

67

60.0

 Anticoagulation

3

2.7

 Wake-up stroke

18

16.2

 NHISS at admission

8 (0–28)

 

 OSCP

 TACS

25

22.5

 PACS

56

50.4

 LACS

30

27.0

TOAST

 Small-vessel occlusion

23

21.0

 Large-artery atherosclerosis

11

9.9

 Cardioembolism

31

28.0

 Other determined etiology

5

4.5

 Undetermined etiology

41

37

  1. AMI acute myocardial infarction, CAD coronary artery disease, NIHSS National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, OSCP The Oxford Community Stroke Project classification, TACS total anterior circulation syndrome, PACS partial anterior circulation syndrome, LACS lacunar syndrome