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Table 4 National institutes of health stroke scale at baseline and discharge between both genders based on intervention

From: Gender disparity versus equality in acute stroke: a Middle Eastern country hospital-based study

NIHSS baseline	rtPA		Mann–Whitney test
	Did not receive	Received	Z	P value
	Median (IQR)	Median (IQR)	Z	P value
Male	5 (4–9)	10 (6–12)	4.580	< 0.001
Female	6 (4–11)	12.5 (6–13)	2.499	0.012
Mann–Whitney test
Z	2.157	1.585
P value	0.031	0.113
NIHSS discharge
Male	3 (2–6)	3 (1–5)	0.889	0.374
Female	5 (3–10)	5 (0–7)	1.183	0.237
Mann–Whitney test
Z	2.622	0.088
P value	0.009	0.930

The bold values indicate that they are statistically significant with P value < 0.05
NIHSS: national institutes of health stroke scale, rtPA: recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, IQR: interquartile range

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