Effect of Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Naming Abilities in Early-Stroke Aphasic Patients: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Sham-Controlled Study

Table 1

Patients characteristics (𝑛=26).

	E group (𝑛=13)	C group (𝑛=13)	𝑃 value
Gender M/F (𝑛)	6/7	7/6	0.70^a
Age (mean, SD)	62.31 (11.03)	60.15 (10.58)	0.57^b
Years of education (mean, SD)	13.23 (3.92)	11 (2.00)	0.13^b
Days from onset to pretreatment exam (mean, SD)	28.92 (19.39)	48.54 (32.33)	0.06^b
Days from posttreatment exam to followup (mean, SD)	106.08 (8.62)	108.08 (6.30)	0.33^b
Language training between posttreatment exam and followup, hours (mean, SD)	15.08 (13.71)	14.77 (15.04)	0.74^b
Motor threshold (mean, SD)	56.85 (10.2)	59 (9.3)	0.57^b
Aphasia severity—ASRS (mean, SD)	2.23 (1.01)	2.08 (1.4)	0.69^b
Type of aphasia (𝑛, %)
Broca	3 (23.1)	3 (23.1)	^c
Wernicke	2 (30.8)	4 (15.4)
Mixed	7 (38.5)	5 (53.8)
Transcortical mixed	1 (7.7)	1 (7.7)
Language lesion location (𝑛, %)
Anterior	5 (38.45)	4 (30.7)	^c
Posterior	5 (38.45)	3 (23.1)
Anterior + Posterior	3 (23.1)	6 (46.2)

E: experimental group, C: control group, SD: standard deviation, ^a𝜒², ^bMann-Whitney U test, ^canalysis not performed due to small number of data.