highly significantp = 0 0.0001
Eight patients (8.6%) had an ESS score more than 9, which is the normal cutoff limit.One month later (ESS2) the mean was10.99 ± 4.569 and ranged from zero to 22, and 60 patients (64.5%) crossed the cutoff limit,i.e., the ESS 1 was worse one month following the stroke.The change was also very highly significant ( p = 0 0.0001).