Table 1: Clinical characteristics of patients with and without AF (distinguishing AF patients regarding AC usage before stroke).

Non-AF patients AF patients p value Patients with AF p value
Patients using AC (n=53) Patients without AC (n=47)
Age, years 66.99 ± 11.7 76.19 ± 9.4 < 0.001 74.32 ± 7.67 78.51 ± 10.74 0.022
Sex
Men, n (%)
Women, n (%)		 61 (61)
39 (39)		 37 (37)
63 (63)		 0.01 23 (23)
30 (30)		 14 (14)
33 (33)		 0.159
INR* 1 (0.9-1.47) 1.15 (0.96-3.25) < 0.001 1.21 (1-3.25) 1.11 (0.94-3.15) <0.001
Stroke history, n (%) 11 (11) 18 (18) 0.160 9 (9) 9 (9) 0.778

AF-atrial fibrillation; AC-anticoagulants; INR - international normalized ratio
*INR in AF patients using VKA was 1.22 (1-3.25), only four of these patients had INR in recommended therapeutic range (2-3).