Some baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, such as BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, use of medications at admission including antihypertensive agents and antidiabetic agents or insulin, stroke severity (NIHSS score), HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose, TC, TG, HDL-C and LDL-C, differed between the TyG < 8.9 and TyG ≥ 8.9 groups, and other variables were relatively similar. Here, INS is linked to diabetes mellitus.