Clinical Study
The Effect of rTMS over the Different Targets on Language Recovery in Stroke Patients with Global Aphasia: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Study
Table 1
Summary of patients’ characteristics.
| | | rTMS-W group (n=18) | rTMS-b group (n=13) | Sham group (n=15) | Statistics | P |
| | Gender, M/F | 12/6 | 7/6 | 9/6 | χ2=0.528 | 0.768 | | Mean age, years (SD) | 65.95 (8.53) | 62.46 (10.95) | 63.60 (16.71) | F=-0.561 | 0.574 | | Time of onset, days (SD) | 55.90 (19.41) | 50.58 (23.80) | 61.20 (22.66) | F=-0.917 | 0.407 | | Hypertension (n) | 14 | 11 | 12 | χ2=0.528 | 0.768 | | Diabetes (n) | 5 | 5 | 7 | χ2=0.152 | 0.697 | | Coronary artery disease (n) | 2 | 3 | 3 | χ2=0.073 | 0.787 | | Atrial fibrillation (n) | 4 | 3 | 3 | χ2=0.167 | 0.682 | | WAB-AQ scores (SD) | 9.07 (7.12) | 10.48 (12.49) | 7.05 (10.67) | F=-0.427 | 0.655 |
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