In this study, clinical data were collected from the enrolled patients, including demographics (age and sex); vascular risk factors (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and ischemic heart disease); baseline blood pressure [systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP)]; Trial of Org 10 172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) [large-artery atherosclerosis, cardioembolism, small-vessel occlusion, acute stroke of other determined etiology, stroke of undetermined etiology]; stroke severity (SS) [defined as mild stroke according to the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores of ≤ 8, moderate-to-severe stroke according to NIHSS scores of ≥9; all assessments completed on admission]; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features [stroke distribution (SD; anterior circulation, posterior circulation, and anterior/posterior circulation), side of hemisphere (SOH; left, right, and bilateral), number of stroke lesions (NOSs; single and multiple stroke lesions), site of stroke lesions (SOSs; cortical, cortico-subcortical, subcortical, brainstem, and cerebellum)]; laboratory tests [total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), fasting blood glucose (FBG), homocysteine (HCY), uric acid (UA), fibrinogen (FIB), myoglobin (MB), C-reactive protein (CRP), D-dimer brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), HBALC, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and S-100β levels], treatment regimen [intravenous thrombolysis, arterial thrombolysis, antiplatelet, anticoagulation, statin, and proton pump inhibitor therapy (PPI)]; and stroke comorbidities [dysphagia and stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP)].
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