Eating and Grooming Abilities Predict Outcomes in Patients with Early Middle Cerebral Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 1

Patient demographics and characteristics within 4 days after the onset of MCA infarction.

Variables	Total	Home	Changed hospital	value
Number of subjects ()	367	180	187
Age, mean (SD)				0.03
Men ()	187	102	85	0.04
Women ()	180	78	102
Infarction type ()				0.03
Cardiogenic embolism	154	63	91
Atherosclerosis	110	56	54
Lacunar	88	53	35
Others	15	8	7
Paralyzed side ()				0.88
Right	192	103	89
Double	3	2	1
No paralysis	3	2	1
BRS hand at onset ()				0.01
I	78	8	70
II	40	6	34
III	16	3	13
IV	45	25	20
V	159	112	47
VI	29	26	3
FIM onset (score)
Total	39 (18–126)	77 (18–126)	20 (18–114)	0.01
Length of hospital stay (days)				0.01