An Inflammatory Polymorphisms Risk Scoring System for the Differentiation of Ischemic Stroke Subtypes

Table 2

Clinical risk factors analyzed in the discovery and replication cohorts.

	Discovery cases	Discovery controls	value	Replication cases	Replication controls	value
	( = 374)	( = 156)		( = 242)	( = 547)
Male	50.4% (188)	28.5% (37)		47.5% (115)	42.5% (230)	0.19
Female	49.6% (185)	71.5% (93)		52.5% (127)	57.5% (311)	0.19
Presence of hypertension	63.1% (231)	40% (52)		59.8% (143)	44.2% (239)
Current smoker	13.8% (49)	14.6% (19)	0.77	18.3% (43)	12.6% (68)	0.036
Presence of diabetes mellitus	22% (80)	14.6% (19)	0.07	19.9% (48)	8.2% (44)
Presence of dyslipidemia	34.6% (125)	27.7% (36)	0.15	25.8% (62)	28.7% (155)	0.41

The significant results are in bold.