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Short-Term Outcome in Stroke Patients with or without Atrial Fibrillation: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with (no. 40) and without (no. 40) CE/AF stroke undergoing a standard rehabilitation treatment.


Patients	Gender	Age	Affected hemisphere	DD (days)	LOH (days)	CIRS (SI)	CIRS (CI)	FIM (admission)	FIM (discharge)

CE/AF	23 males	65.4 ± 9.1	Right: 21 patients	32.3 ± 24.4	41.6 ± 13.4	1.1 ± 0.2	5.4 ± 1.4	51.9 ± 20.3	75.7 ± 21.2*
Non-CE/AF	23 males	65.5 ± 8.9	Right: 21 patients	28.9 ± 22.7	42.8 ± 16.1	1.2 ± 0.2	5.3 ± 1.3	54.9 ± 19	73.9 ± 22.7*

		P = 0.95		P = 0.55	P = 0.74	P = 0.21	P = 0.86	P = 0.49	P = 0.72

Data are expressed as mean ± SD. DD: disease duration, LOH: length of hospitalization, CIRS (SI): cumulative Illness Rating score (severity index), CIRS (CI): Cumulative Illness Rating score (comorbidity index), FIM: functional independence measures, *significant treatment (time) effect.