The Influence of Speech-Language-Hearing Therapy Duration on the Degree of Improvement in Poststroke Language Impairment

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients.

Characteristic	Category	Total	%
		( 3,551)
Age	≥75 years	1,373	38.7
	65–74 years	956	26.9
	55–64 years	705	19.9
	≤54 years	517	14.6
Sex	Male	2,054	57.8
	Female	1,497	42.2
Dementia level	Normal	875	24.6
	Mild-to-moderate	1,063	29.9
	Severe	878	24.7
	Unknown	735	20.7
Stroke classification	Cerebral infarction	1,826	51.4
	Intracranial hemorrhage	824	23.2
	Subarachnoid hemorrhage	188	5.3
	Other	47	1.3
Duration of hospitalization	≤91 days	1,764	49.7
	≥92 days	1,787	50.3
Paralysis side	Right	1,207	34.0
	Left	1,092	30.7
	Unknown	1,253	35.3

Some data were missing; therefore, summing the number of patients in each category based on a specific characteristic might not equal the total number of patients in the study sample.