Dorien Brouwer

80 Chapter 1.4 PART 1 Table 1: Baseline characteristics ( N=100) Sex (male), n (%) 60 (60) Age (years), mean (SD) 64 (12) Event characteristics: Event type (TIA), n (%) 53 (53) Stroke etiology (TOAST) 1 , n (%) Large vessel disease 13 (13) Cardiac embolism 15 (15) Small vessel disease 19 (19) Other 0 Undetermined 53 (53) NIHSS score 2 , median (IQ) 3 (1-5) Vascular history, n (%) TIA 18 (18) Ischemic stroke 15 (15) Ischemic heart disease 36 (36) Atrial fibrillation 11 (11) Peripheral arterial disease 8 (8) No vascular history 49 (49) Cognition and depression: Score on MoCA 3 , median (IQ) scores from 0-30 24 (21-26) Score on CES-D 4 , median (IQ) scores from 0-30 7 (5-13) Vascular risk factors: Hypertension, n (%) 65 (65) Systolic blood pressure (mmHg), mean (SD) 135 (22) Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), mean (SD) 78 (13) Hypercholesterolemia, n (%) 79 (79) LDL level (mmol/l), mean (SD) 3.17 (1.0) Blood glucose level (mmol/l), mean (SD) 5.9 (1.4) Diabetes Mellitus, n (%) 30 (30)