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Table 4 Risk for in-hospital mortality in ischemic stroke patients with diabetes and without diabetes. Cox's proportional hazards model.

From: Cerebral infarction in diabetes: Clinical pattern, stroke subtypes, and predictors of in-hospital mortality

Predictors of death

Hazard ratio

P value

95% CI

Diabetic stroke patients

   

   Demographic variables and vascular risk factors (model 1)

   

Chronic nephropathy

5.78

0.001

1.99–16.80

Congestive heart disease

2.52

0.045

1.02–6.23

Atrial fibrillation

2.39

0.003

1.36–4.20

Age

1.06

0.002

1.02–1.10

   Demographic variables, vascular risk factors, clinical variables, and stroke subtypes (model 2)

   

Decreased consciousness

5.16

0.000

2.82–9.42

Congestive heart disease

4.08

0.002

1.65–10.09

Chronic nephropathy

3.27

0.036

1.08–9.89

Atrial fibrillation

2.41

0.002

1.38–4.23

Non-diabetic stroke patients

   

   Demographic variables and vascular risk factors (model 1)

   

Congestive heart disease

2.00

0.001

1.35–2.96

Atrial fibrillation

1.83

0.000

1.38–2.43

Ischemic heart disease

1.74

0.002

1.23–2.58

Age

1.04

0.000

1.03–1.06

   Demographic variables, vascular risk factors, clinical variables, and stroke subtypes (model 2)

   

Decreased consciousness

4.58

0.000

3.39–6.19

Limb weakness

1.93

0.038

1.04–3.59

Nausea/vomiting

1.79

0.009

1.16–2.76

Seizures

1.75

0.047

1.01–3.03

Congestive heart disease

1.74

0.006

1.17–2.59

Ischemic heart disease

1.72

0.003

1.02–1.80

Atrial fibrillation

1.35

0.039

1.02–1.80

Age

1.03

0.000

1.02–1.05