Demographic, occupational and vascular risk factor characteristics
| Stroke patients N=140 | Controls N=50 | Patients versus controls | |
| Men/women, N (%) | 83 (59.3)/57 (40.7) | 31 (62.0)/19 (38.0) | p=0.737* |
| Age, mean (SD) | 52.0 (10.5) | 54.3 (9.0) | p=0.161† |
| Education years, mean (SD) | 12.5 (2.6) | 12.4 (2.9) | p=0.814† |
| Type of work | p=0.518* | ||
| Managerial employee, N (%) | 37 (26.4) | 16 (32.0) | |
| Clerical employee, N (%) | 26 (18.6) | 11 (22.0) | |
| Employee, N (%) | 61 (43.6) | 21 (42.0) | |
| Entrepreneur, N (%) | 11 (7.9) | 2 (4.0) | |
| Student, N (%) | 5 (3.6) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Accumulation of vascular risk factors | p=0.067‡ | ||
| Atrial fibrillation, N (%) | 16 (11.4) | 1 (2.0) | |
| Diabetes, N (%) | 14 (10.1) | 3 (6.0) | |
| Hypercholesterolaemia, N (%) | 80 (57.1) | 29 (58.0) | |
| Hypertension, N (%) | 88 (62.9) | 29 (58.0) | |
| Overweight, N (%) | 90 (64.3) | 35 (70.0) | |
| Smoking, N (%) | 50 (35.7) | 9 (18.0) |
↵* χ2 Statistics.
↵† t Statistics
↵‡ U Statistics; managerial employee: occupations typically requiring an academic degree; clerical employee: occupations requiring a vocational degree below the academic degree; employee: manual labour; entrepreneur: for example, practitioners and self-employed persons; student: full-time students; accumulation of vascular risk factors: sum score of vascular risk factors.