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Table 6 Predictors associated with good long-term outcome after undergoing mechanical thrombectomy assessed by telephone and dichotomized EQ pain/discomfort score by the EQ-5D-5L (score 1 or 2 versus greater than or equal to 3)

From: Functional long-term outcome following endovascular thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke

 

Pain/discomfort score EQ-5D-5L 1 or 2 (N = 65)

Pain/discomfort score EQ-5D-5L 3–5 (N = 38)

Test statistics

Thrombectomy parameters

   

 Occluded target vessel

   

  M1

39/65 (60.0%)

30/38 (78.9)

3.893/0.048a

 Risk factors

   

  Blood glucose level on admission

124.3 ± 27.3 mg/dl

145.6 ± 63.1 mg/dl

U = 1458.000, Z = 2.198, p = 0.028c

  Former stroke

9/65 (13.8%)

13/38 (34.2%)

5.921/0.015a

 Complications

   

  Intracerebral bleeding

31/65 (47.7%)

9/38 (23.7%)

5.819/0.016a

  1. aChi square, bparametric t-test, and cMann-Whitney U-Test used as appropriate. dCategorical variables with cell frequencies lower than 5 were not analysed due to requirement violations of the Chi-square tests
  2. Parameters highlighted in bold indicate significant differences between the groups