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Table 1 Comparison of general clinical data between the two groups

From: The safety of antithrombotic therapy in patients with cerebral microbleeds and cardiogenic cerebral embolism due to nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

 

CMBs group n = 110

non-CMBs group n = 122

t orχ2

P value

Patient characteristics

 Male gender (%)

81 (73.6)

74 (60.7)

4.396

0.036

 Age (years)

68.1 ± 11.4

68.0 ± 13.0

0.039

0.969

 Smoking (%)

36 (32.7)

49 (40.2)

1.378

0.240

 Hypertension history (%)

81 (73.6)

72 (59.0)

5.506

0.019

 Diabetes history (%)

48 (43.6)

37 (30.3)

4.413

0.036

AF status

6.380

0.012

 AF history (%)

56 (50.9)

82 (67.2)

  

 New diagnosis of AF (%)

54 (49.1)

40 (32.8)

  

AF type

0.045

0.833

 Paroxysmal AF (%)

40 (36.4)

46 (37.7)

  

 Persistent AF (%)

70 (63.6)

76 (62.3)

  

 CI history (%)

22 (20.0)

21 (17.2)

0.298

0.585

 CH history (%)

4 (3.6)

2 (1.6)

0.916

0.339

NIHSS score

6.3 ± 5.2

7.1 ± 5.6

−0.864

0.389

CHA2DS2VASc score

5.0 ± 1.2

5.4 ± 1.2

−2.922

0.004

HAS-BLED score

1.6 ± 0.4

1.5 ± 0.5

0.152

0.880

Antithrombotic therapy

11.981

0.001

 Anticoagulant therapy

54 (49.1)

87 (71.3)

1.180

0.554

 Warfarin (%)

14 (12.7)

30 (24.6)

  

 Dabigatran (%)

36 (32.7)

52 (42.6)

  

 Rivaroxaban (%)

4 (3.6)

5 (4.1)

  

 Antiplatelet therapy

56 (50.9)

35 (28.7)

0.005

0.946

 Aspirin (%)

34 (30.9)

21 (17.2)

  

 Clopidogrel (%)

22 (20.0)

14 (11.5)