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Table 1 Characteristics according to subjects with and without depressive symptoms

From: Relationship between the lesion location of acute ischemic stroke and early depressive symptoms in Japanese patients

 

Subjects with probable PSD

Subjects without probable PSD

p value

n

71

350

 

Age

74.4 ± 11.1

71.6 ± 11.2

0.052

Gender

Male 43,

Female 28

Male 221,

Female 129

0.682

Amount of education (year)

9.9 ± 2.8

9.8 ± 2.5

0.936

Living alone

10

54

0.767

NIHSS total score

6.3 ± 5.2

2.7 ± 3.4

<0.001

FIM total score

72.7 ± 34.2

102.2 ± 28.4

<0.001

  1. PSD post-stroke depression, NIHSS National institutes of health stroke scale, FIM functional independence measure