Higher Prevalence of Diabetes in Pontine Infarction than in Other Posterior Circulation Strokes

Table 2

Multivariate logistic regression of pontine infarction.

	Univariate			Multivariate
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Male	0.87	0.70-1.07	0.176
Age	1.00	0.99-1.02	0.121
Smoking	0.92	0.82-1.04	0.205
Drinking	0.89	0.75-1.04	0.146
Hypertension	1.26	0.99-1.59	0.051	1.13	0.86-1.48	0.401
Hyperlipidemia
TC	1.12	1.04-1.12	0.009	1.01	0.83-1.23	0.887
LDL	1.16	1.05-1.27	<0.01	1.15	0.91-1.44	0.242
HDL	1.05	0.82-1.35	0.678
TG	1.06	0.98-1.15	0.142
Uric acid	1.00	0.99-1.00	0.201
Previous stroke or TIA	0.84	0.66-1.08	0.184
Medicine
Antiplatelet	1.23	0.98-1.55	0.078	1.21	0.96-1.54	0.110
Statin	0.82	0.56-1.18	0.285
Antihypertensive agent	1.14	0.99-1.31	0.074	1.06	0.90-1.26	0.487
Diabetes	1.61	1.31-1.98	<0.01	1.63	1.27-2.09	<0.01
Fasting plasma glucose	1.04	1.01-1.09	0.018	0.99	0.95-1.04	0.734

TC: total cholesterol; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; TG: triglyceride; TIA: transient ischemic attack.