Review Article
Frequency and Mortality Risk Factors of Acute Ischemic Stroke in Emergency Department in Burkina Faso
Table 2
Results of multivariate analysis.
| Covariables | Odds ratio | 95% CI | value | Significance |
| Age (<65 and ≥65 years) | 1.97 | 0.831-4.682 | 0.123 | | Gender (M/F) | 0.908 | 0.71-2.224 | 0.834 | | Hypertension (Y/N) | 1.25 | 0.502-31.56 | 0.623 | | Diabetes mellitus (Y/N) | 2.023 | 0.406-10.084 | 0.39 | | Heart disease (Y/N) | 6.72 | 1.186-38.071 | 0.031 | + | Previous stroke (Y/N) | 0.603 | 0.124-2.92 | 0.53 | | Smoking (Y/N) | 0.975 | 0.189-5.017 | 0.977 | | Alcohol (Y/N) | 0.449 | 0.125-1.607 | 0.213 | | Consciousness disorders (Y/N) | 2.692 | 0.59-12.28 | 0.031 | + | Fever (Y/N) | 5.06 | 1.663-4.353 | 0.004 | + | Time to perform brain CT >24 h (Y/N) | 1.762 | 0.713-4.353 | 0.219 | | Hyperglycemia (Y/N) | 6.503 | 0.86-8.991 | 0.008 | + | Anemia (O/N) | 3.792 | 0.276-52.048 | 0.319 | | Renal failure (normal/altered) | 1.08 | 0.191-6.098 | 0.93 | | Poststroke pneumonia (Y/N) | 9.528 | 3.253-27.904 | ≤0.001 | + | Urinary tract infection (Y/N) | 15.08 | 2.09-108.813 | 0.007 | + | Cutaneous infections (Y/N) | 7.949 | 0.235-268.37 | 0.248 | | Length of stay (<7 days and ≥7 days) | 1.246 | 0.355-4.364 | 0.731 | |
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+: positive impact; : no impact. |