Clinical Study
Early Poststroke Rehabilitation Using a Robotic Tilt-Table Stepper and Functional Electrical Stimulation
Table 1
Patient demographics and cardiovascular risk variables.
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| Number | 39 | 35 | 30 | ā | Age (mean, SD) | 61.0, 9.33 | 59.0, 8.09 | 57.0, 8.26 | 0.86 | Gender (number of females) | 18 | 16 | 14 | 1.0 | NIHSS at enrollment | 13.4 | 12.4 | 13.0 | 0.88 | Hypertension (%) | 30 | 26 | 28 | 0.86 | Cardiac arrhythmia (%) | 17 | 8 | 19 | 0.38 | DM II (%) | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0.96 | Smoking (%) | 20 | 18 | 15 | 0.88 | Obesity (BMI > 30) (%) | 15 | 20 | 19 | 0.84 |
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of between-group differences in the means of the variables.
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