PLAT and diabetes mellitus: The patients in the non-BGC group had more diabetes (32.1 vs. 15.9%; p = 0.03), current smoking (31.5 vs. 15.9%; p = 0.04), but were less commonly administered intravenous r-tPA (IV r-tPA; 55.2 vs. 72.7%; p = 0.03) and less likely to choose MT under general anesthesia (45.5 vs. 63.6%; p = 0.05) compared with patients in the BGC group.