Table 1 Patients characteristics.

From: The analysis of association between single features of small vessel disease and stroke outcome shows the independent impact of the number of microbleeds and presence of lacunes

Clinical and radiological variables

All participants, N = 873

Age, years mean (SD)

67.9 (15.4)

Sex, Male %

56.0

Thrombolysis, no/i.v./i.v.&MT/ MT, %

20.5/29/22/28.5

History of TIA, %

4.6

Hypertension, %

67.2

Diabetes, %

15.3

Smoking, %

27.1

Hyperlipidemia, %

69.3

Atrial Fibrillation, %

25.7

Coronary Heart Disease, %

15.3

LVO, yes %

65.4%

Body Mass Index, mean (SD)

27.1 (15.3)

Pre-stroke mRS, median (IQR; range)

0 (0, 0; 0–5)

3 months mRS, median (IQR; range)

1 (0, 2; 0–5)

NIHSS at admission, median (IQR; range)

6 (2, 11; 0–36)

NIHSS 24 h, median (IQR; range)

2 (1, 6; 0–36)

Continuous SVD assessment

 Number of lacunes, mean (SD; range)

0.46 (1.15; 0–10)

 Number of microbleeds, mean (SD; range)

0.77 (3.20; 0–59)

 Enlarged perivascular spaces, rating, mean (SD; range)

2.09 (0.88; 0–4)

 WMH Fazekas scale, mean (SD; range)

1.28 (0.91; 0–3)

Binary SVD assessment, presence of pathology

 Lacunes, %

22.6

 Microbleeds, %

23.4

 Enlarged perivascular spaces1, %

30.2

 WMH Fazekas scale1, %

33.2

  1. IQR—interquartile range; NIHSS—National Institutes of Health Stoke Scale; LVO—large vessel occlusion; MT—mechanical thrombectomy; SD—standard deviation; TIA—transient ischemic attack; WMH—white matter hyperintensities.
  2. 1—presence of pathology according to the rating scheme for the total SVD score8,9.