Research Article
Higher Prevalence of Diabetes in Pontine Infarction than in Other Posterior Circulation Strokes
Table 1
Pontine infarction vs. nonpontine infarction.
| | Pontine infarction | Nonpontine infarction | |
| | 754 | 795 | | | Male (%) | 475 (63.0%) | 527 (66.2%) | 0.184 | | Age (y) | | | 0.118 | | Smoking (%) | 205 (27.2%) | 238 (29.9%) | 0.432 | | Ex-smoker (%) | 47 (22.9%) | 50 (21.0%) | | | Current smoker (%) | 158 (77.1%) | 188 (79.0%) | | | Drinking | 82 (10.9%) | 95 (11.9%) | 0.154 | | Former drinker (%) | 26 (31.7%) | 15 (15.8%) | | | Current heavy drinker (%) | 52 (63.4%) | 69 (72.6%) | | | Current light drinker (%) | 4 (4.9%) | 11 (11.5%) | | | Hypertension (%) | 584 (77.4%) | 582 (73.2%) | 0.051 | | Hyperlipidemia | | | | | TC (mM) | | | <0.01 | | LDL (mM) | | | <0.01 | | HDL (mM) | | | 0.676 | | TG (mM) | | | 0.142 | | Uric acid (μM) | | | 0.201 | | Previous stroke or TIA (%) | 146 (19.4%) | 176 (22.1%) | 0.183 | | Medicine | | | | | Antiplatelet (%) | 205 (27.2%) | 186 (23.4%) | 0.080 | | Statin (%) | 55 (7.3%) | 70 (8.8%) | 0.283 | | Antihypertensive agent (%) | 335 (44.4%) | 349 (43.9%) | 0.178 | | Diabetes (%) | 322 (42.7%) | 250 (31.4%) | <0.01 | | New diagnosis (%) | 55 (17.1%) | 50 (20.0%) | | | Previously diagnosed | 267 (82.9%) | 200 (80.0%) | | | No treatment (%) | 23 (8.6%) | 18 (9.0%) | | | Poorly controlled (%) | 208 (77.9%) | 136 (68.0%) | | | Well-controlled (%) | 37 (13.8%) | 46 (23.0%) | | | Fasting plasma glucose (mM) | | | 0.022 |
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TC: total cholesterol; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; TG: triglyceride; TIA: transient ischemic attack.
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