Research Article
The Development of Simple Scoring System to Predict Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in Patients with Stroke
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of patients.
| | Characteristics | UTI | value |
| | Type of stroke | No (n = 1008) | Yes (n = 488) | <0.001 | | Cerebral thrombosis, n (%) | 304 (30.2) | 96 (26.7) | | | Cerebral embolism, n (%) | 80 (7.9) | 68 (13.9) | | | Intracerebral hemorrhage, n (%) | 408 (40.5) | 240 (49.2) | | | Subarachnoid hemorrhage, n (%) | 216 (21.4) | 84 (17.2) | | | Age | 56.4 ± 7.2 | 59.0 ± 12.8 | <0.001 | | Gender, n (%) | | | | | Female | 244 (24.2) | 176 (36.1) | <0.001 | | Male | 764 (75.8) | 312 (63.9) | | Season | | | | | Spring | 400 (39.7) | 192 (39.3) | <0.001 | | Summer | 176 (17.5) | 96 (19.7) | | Fall | 48 (4.8) | 64 (13.1) | | Winter | 384 (38.1) | 136 (27.9) | | Smoking | | | | | No smoking and SI<100 | 440 (64.7) | 304 (76) | <0.001 | | 100 ≦ SI<200 | 156 (22.9) | 32 (8.0) | | 200 ≦ SI<300 | 68 (10.0) | 16 (4.0) | | 300 ≦ SI | 16 (2.4) | 48 (12.0) | | Alcohol | | | | | No | 620 (61.5) | 288 (59.0) | <0.001 | | <25 g/d | 96 (9.5) | 16 (3.3) | | >25 g/d | 292 (29.0) | 184 (37.7) | | Diabetes mellitus | | | | | No | 916 (90.9) | 439 (90.0) | 0.252 | | Yes | 92 (9.1) | 49 (10.0) | | Poststroke hyperglycemia | | | | | No | 903 (89.7) | 325 (66.6) | <0.001 | | Yes | 120 (10.3) | 163 (33.4) | | Indwelling of urinary catheter | | | | | No | 851 (84.4) | 137 (28.0) | <0.001 | | Yes | 157 (15.6) | 351 (72.0) | | GCS on admission | 11.2 ± 3.9 | 8.5 ± 4.0 | 0.038 | | NIHSS on admission | 12.8 ± 7.3 | 19.0 ± 9.1 | 0.105 | | WFNS (in SAH) on admission | 2.9 ± 1.7 | 3.5 ± 1.5 | <0.001 |
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UTI: urinary tract infection, GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale, NIHSS: National Institute of Health Stroke Scale, and WFNS: World Federation of Neurosurgeons.
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