Research Article
Arterial Hypertension and Its Consequences Are the Main Predictors of Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source
Table 2
Demographic, anthropometric parameters, stroke risk factors, comorbidities, and MoCA score scale of asymptomatic volunteers and patients with ESUS.
| | Asymptomatic volunteers (control group), n = 47 | Patients with ESUS (study group), n = 112 | Significance (р) |
| | Age (years) (mean ± SD) | 55 ± 14 | 58 ± 12 | 0.079 | | Male sex (n (%)) | 27 (57.4%) | 81 (72.3%) | 0.093 | | Body mass index (kg/m2) (mean ± SD) | 26.93 ± 4.97 | 27.65 ± 4.59 | 0.402 | | Smoking (n (%)) | 10 (21.3%) | 32 (28.8%) | 0.431 | | Arterial hypertension (n (%)) | 15 (31.9%) | 91 (81.3%) | <0.0005 | | Diabetes mellitus (n (%)) | 5 (10.6%) | 25 (22.3%) | 0.119 | | Chronic kidney disease (n (%)) | 1 (2.1%) | 5 (4.5%) | 0.671 | | MoСA cognitive scale overall score (median [Q1, Q3]) | 27 [26, 28] | 22 [13, 28] | 0.001 |
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p Values below the usual significance bound (0.05) are highlighted in bold i.e. significant ones.
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