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Table 2 Demographic and vascular risk factors of both types of stroke in an adult group

From: Pediatric vs. adult stroke: comparative study in a tertiary referral hospital, Cairo, Egypt

Variables

Total cohort

Ischemic stroke

Hemorrhagic stroke

p

Median age, [age range]

64 years 6 months (26–92)

56 years (26–92 )

43 years (40–85)

0.942

Sex

170

143 (84.1%)

27 (15.9%)

 

 Male

 Female

108 (63.5%)

62 (36.4%)

91 (63.6%)

52 (36.4%)

17 (63.0%)

10 (37.0%)

 

Hypertension

116 (68.2%)

100 (69.9%)

16 (59.3%)

0.275

Diabetes

85 (50%)

75 (52.4%)

10 (37.0%)

0.142

Dyslipidemia

77 (45.2%)

71 (49.7%)

6 (22.2%)

0.009*

Cardiac diseases

    

 Arrhythmia (AF)

 Hypokinesia

 Dilated LA

 Valvular lesions

55 (32.3%)

20

21

15

4

2

51 (35.7%)

20 (14.0%)

21 (14.7%)

15 (10.5%)

4 (2.8%)

2 (1.4%)

4 (14.8%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0.034*

0.039*

0.028*

0.078

0.379

0.537

 Intracardiac masses

    

 Smoking habits

25 (14.7%)

22 (15.4%)

3 (11.1%)

0.565

 History of previous stroke

43 (25.2%)

38 (26.6%)

5 (18.5%)

0.377

  1. By Mann Whitney test and Chi square test, *p value was significant