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Research Article

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

Comparison of baseline characteristics between the two subgroups with lesion including the anterior part of language area.


	E group ()	C group ()	value

Gender M/F ()	4/4	5/5	1^a
Age (mean, SD)	63 (12.07)	58.7 (11.38)	0.42^b
Years of education (mean, SD)	13.3 (4.06)	11.1 (2.08)	0.28^b
Days from onset to pretreatment exam (mean, SD)	26.6 (12.27)	55.4 (33.58)	0.037^b
Days from posttreatment exam to followup (mean, SD)	106 (9.6)	108.1 (6.7)	0.76^b
Language training between posttreatment exam and followup, hours (mean, SD)	18.25 (13.9)	14 (14.72)	0.3^b
Motor threshold (mean, SD)	58.4 (11.8)	60.7 (12)	0.55^b
Aphasia severity—ASRS (mean, SD)	2.5 (1.1)	2 (1.2)	0.34^b
Language lesion location (, %)
Anterior	5 (38.5)	4 (30.7)	^c
Anterior + Posterior	3 (23.1)	6 (46.2)	^c

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