Clinical Study
Sex, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Outcome after Thrombolysis for Ischemic Stroke
Table 2
Modified Rankin Scale score before ischemic event and 3 months after rtPA.
| | Men () | Women () | value |
| BASELINE mRS SCORE | | | | 0 (no symptoms at all) | 158 (82.7) | 107 (66.5) | 0.0004 | 1 (no significant disability despite symptoms) | 20 (10.5) | 35 (21.7) | 0.004 | 2 (slight disability) | 11 (5.8) | 9 (5.6) | 0.9 | 3 (moderate disability) | 1 (0.5) | 8 (5.0) | 0.008 | 4 (moderate severe disability) | 1 (0.5) | 2 (1.2) | 0.5 | 5 (severe disability) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | NS | Favourable mRS score | 189 (99.0) | 151 (93.8) | 0.008 | 3-MONTH mRS SCORE | | | | 0 (no symptoms at all) | 56 (29.0) | 42 (25.9) | 0.2 | 1 (no significant disability despite symptoms) | 38 (23.5) | 33 (22.1) | 0.8 | 2 (slight disability) | 20 (12.3) | 24 (16.1) | 0.3 | 3 (moderate disability) | 14 (7.3) | 10 (6.7) | 0.5 | 4 (moderate severe disability) | 14 (8.6) | 13 (8.7) | 1.0 | 5 (severe disability) | 5 (2.6) | 4 (2.5) | 0.8 | 6 (dead) | 15 (9.3) | 23 (15.4) | 0.1 | Favourable mRS score | 114 (70.4) | 99 (66.4) | 0.5 |
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Abbreviations: mRS: modified rankin scale. Data are described as (%); values were calculated and proportions were compared using the test.
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