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

Table 4

Multivariate logistic regression of pontine infarction with SVO.

	Univariate			Multivariate
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Male	0.91	0.70-1.17	0.441
Age	1.01	1.00-1.02	0.019	1.01	1.00-1.02	0.052
Smoking	0.95	0.82-1.07	0.483
Drinking	0.89	0.73-1.08	0.240
Hypertension	1.36	1.03-1.79	0.032	1.24	0.94-1.65	0.132
Hyperlipidemia
TC	1.10	0.99-1.22	0.058	0.93	0.74-1.16	0.521
LDL	1.15	1.02-1.30	0.021	1.26	0.97-1.65	0.089
HDL	1.00	0.63-1.58	0.987
TG	1.01	0.93-1.10	0.789
Uric acid	1.00	0.99-1.00	0.362
Previous stroke or TIA	0.86	0.64-1.16	0.332
Medicine
Antiplatelet	1.18	0.90-1.56	0.230
Statin	0.71	1.45-1.10	0.131
Antihypertensive agent	1.15	0.97-1.36	0.108
Diabetes	1.73	0.33-2.23	<0.01	1.80	1.32-2.46	<0.01
Fasting plasma glucose	1.04	0.99-1.09	0.062	0.99	0.94-1.04	0.601

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