Research Article
Higher Prevalence of Diabetes in Pontine Infarction than in Other Posterior Circulation Strokes
Table 3
Pontine infarction vs. nonpontine infarction with SVO.
| | Pontine infarction | Nonpontine infarction | |
| | 580 | 486 | | | Male (%) | 370 (63.8%) | 321 (66.0%) | 0.442 | | Age (y) | | | 0.018 | | Smoking (%) | 158 (27.2%) | 142 (29.2%) | 0.774 | | Ex-smoker (%) | 34 (21.5%) | 30 (21.2%) | | | Current smoker (%) | 124 (78.5%) | 112 (78.8%) | | | Drinking | 61 (10.5%) | 56 (11.5%) | 0.123 | | Former drinker (%) | 18 (29.5%) | 9 (16.1%) | | | Current heavy drinker (%) | 41 (67.2%) | 40 (71.4%) | | | Current light drinker (%) | 2 (3.3%) | 7 (12.5%) | | | Hypertension (%) | 444 (76.6%) | 343 (70.6%) | 0.028 | | Hyperlipidemia | | | | | TC (mM) | | | 0.062 | | LDL (mM) | | | 0.018 | | HDL (mM) | | | 0.990 | | TG (mM) | | | 0.791 | | Uric acid (μM) | | | 0.868 | | Previous stroke or TIA (%) | 108 (18.6%) | 102 (20.9%) | 0.330 | | Coronal heart disease (%) | 44 (7.6%) | 37 (7.6%) | 0.996 | | Medicine | | | | | Antiplatelet (%) | 157 (27.0%) | 116 (23.9%) | 0.228 | | Statin (%) | 40 (6.9%) | 46 (9.5%) | 0.131 | | Antihypertensive agent (%) | 247 (42.6%) | 207 (42.5%) | 0.232 | | Diabetes (%) | 251 (43.2%) | 146 (30.0%) | <0.01 | | New diagnosis (%) | 38 (15.1%) | 31 (21.2%) | 0.374 | | No drugs (%) | 15 (5.9%) | 9 (6.1%) | | | Poorly controlled (%) | 161 (64.1%) | 79 (52.0%) | | | Well-controlled (%) | 33 (13.1%) | 27 (18.5%) | | | Fasting plasma glucose (mM) | | | 0.058 |
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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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