Table 2: Clinical outcome and haemorrhagic complications.

<85 y-o Oldest Old Group comparison value Patients lost to followup (%) 79 (5.65) 13 (12.26) NIHSS score at 24 hours, median (IQR) 6 (2–15) 11 (4–19) <0.001 NIHSS score at day 7, median (IQR) 3 (0–11) 6 (1–16.5) 0.005 Long-term outcome parameters (day 90)  Favourable outcome (mRS 0-1), (%) 594 (45) 29 (31.2) 0.009  Independent outcome (mRS 0–2), (%) 772 (58.7) 37 (40.2) 0.001  Moderate disability, severe disability, or death (mRS 3–6), (%) 541 (41.1) 55 (59.8) 0.001  Mortality (%) 155 (11.5) 26 (28) <0.001 Causes of death  Ischaemic stroke, (%) 60 (42.3) 9 (36) ns  SICH, (%) 16 (11.3) 1 (4) ns  Myocardial Infarction, (%) 5 (3.5) 1 (4) ns  Pneumonia, (%) 41 (28.9) 12 (48) ns  Pulmonary thromboembolism, (%) 1 (0.7) 0 ns  Other vascular causes, (%) 7 (4.9) 2 (8) ns Hemorrhagic transformation  AICH, (%) 201 (16%) 15 (16%) 0.983  SICH, (%) 48 (3.7) 3 (3.1) 1.000

NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; mRS: Modified Rankin Scale; IQR: interquartile range. SICH: symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage; AICH: Asymptomatic intracranial haemorrhage. Statistical significance .