Prevalence, Comorbid Associations and Prognostic Value of the Hyperdense Middle Cerebral Artery Sign

Table 1

Mean age of patients and controls and time to CT scan.

	𝑁	Mean age (years*)	Time to scan (hours*)
All patients (strokes and TIAs)	117	72 ± 2.6	4.6 ± 0.7
Strokes	100	72 ± 2.6	4.6 ± 0.8
Middle cerebral artery infarcts	61	72 ± 0.9	4.7 ± 1.0
HMCAS +ve	15	77 ± 6.3	4.7 ± 1.1
HMCAS −ve	46	71 ± 4.1	4.7 ± 1.1
Other strokes	39	72 ± 4.2	4.9 ± 1.7
HMCAS +ve	0	—	—
HMCAS −ve	39	72 ± 4.2	4.9 ± 1.7
TIAs	17	73 ± 7.0	4.3 ± 1.8
Controls	65	69 ± 3.1	—

∗No statistically significant difference in means between all groups.