Current management of intracerebral haemorrhage in China: a national, multi-centre, hospital register study

BMC Neurology

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of ICH patients*

	All N = 1572
Sociodemographic
Age, mean (SD), years	61.1 ± 12.9
Female	632 (40)
Living alone	77 (5)
Low education (primary only or illiterate)	820 (52)
Main lifetime occupation type
Manual work^†	850 (54)
None reported	162 (10)
Medical history
History of hypertension	1033 (66)
History of diabetes mellitus	122 (8)
History of hyperlipidaemia	143 (9)
Prior stroke	355 (23)
Prior coronary artery disease^‡	150 (10)
Current smoker	399 (25)
Regular alcohol consumption^§	411 (26)
Overweight^\|\|	637 (41)
Medication history (within one month of stroke onset)
Antihypertensive	730 (46)
Antiplatelet	215 (14)
Warfarin	2 (0.1)
Lipid lowering	36 (2)
Hypoglycaemic	88 (6)
Clinical features
Time from symptom onset to hospital presentation
Median (IQR), hours	3.5 (1.3,17.0)
<6 hours	922 (59)
Unknown	29 (2)
Transported to hospital by ambulance	663 (42)
Poor GCS score on admission^#	360 (23)
Clinical classification - TACS**	290 (18)

*Values are reported as mean ± SD, median (IQR), or number (percentage) of subjects
^†Manual work includes construction, farming/forestry/fishing and related, installation and related, manufacture and production, transportation and driver occupations
^‡Coronary artery disease includes prior heart attack or angina
^§Within the 3 months prior to stroke onset
^||Defined as body mass index ≥24; percentage based on non-missing values, 1 missing value overall
^#GCS - Glasgow Coma Scale, poor score ≤8 in range 3 (low) to 15 (high, normal); percentage based on non-missing values, 64 missing values overall
**Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project Clinical Classification where TACS is Total Anterior Cerebral Syndrome

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