Table 2

Risk factors and the first stroke type

		NL-CE				NL-NE			LI		BH
		n	%			n	%		n	%	n	%
Hypertension	13	65.0		39	83.0		12	63.2	10	62.5
Diabetes mellitus	5	25.0		7^2-150	14.9		8	42.1	3	18.6
Smoking	7	35.0		29	61.7		7	36.8	6	37.5
Hypercholesterolaemia	7	35.0		18	38.3		7	36.8	4	25.0
Cardiac ischaemia	10	50.0		12	25.5		3^2-153	15.8	2^2-153	12.5
PCS	20	100		16^2-151 ^2-152	34.0		9^2-151 ^2-152	47.4	0^2-151	0.0

↵2-150 p<0.05; lower than LI.
↵2-151 p⩽0.0001; lower than NL-CE.
↵2-152 p<0.01; higher than BH.
↵2-153 p<0.05; lower than NL-CE.
NL-CE=non-lacunar cardioembolic infarction; NL-NE=non-lacunar non-cardioembolic infarction; LI=lacunar infarction; BH=brain haemorrhage; PCS=potential cardiac source.