Table 1.
Participants’ characteristics.
| characteristics | EN1 (n=25) |
EN2 (n=25) |
EN3 (n=25) |
EN4 (n=25) |
χ2 | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex(%) |
Man Woman |
17(68.0) 8(32.0) |
21(84.0) 4(16.0) |
12(48.0) 13(52.0) |
16(64.0) 9(36.0) |
7.308 | 0.063 |
| Age, mean(SD)y | 61.8(13.4) | 59.5(14.5) | 58.7(14.3) | 55.3(18.7) | |||
| Disease categories(%) | |||||||
| Strokes | 9(36) | 10(40) | 7(28) | 9(36) | |||
| Intracranial infection | 5(20) | 5(20) | 5(20) | 8(32) | |||
| Epilepsy | 3(12) | 3(12) | 4(16) | 3(12) | |||
| Craniocerebral trauma | 6(24) | 4(16) | 1(4) | 1(4) | |||
| Autoimmune disease | 2(8) | 3(12) | 8(32) | 4(16) | |||
| Hypertensive(%) | 7(28) | 11(44) | 9(36) | 10(40) | 1.502 | 0.682 | |
| Coronary heart disease(%) | 2(8) | 0(0) | 2(8) | 3(12) | 4.505# | 0.212 | |
| Diabetes(%) | 1(4) | 2(8) | 5(20) | 3(12) | 3.601# | 0.308 | |
| Peptic ulcer(%) | 1(4) | 0(0) | 1(4) | 1(4) | 1.757# | 0.624 | |
| Antibiotic use(%) | 22(88) | 22(88) | 21(84) | 23(92) | 0.771# | 0.857 | |
| Nutritional Approach(%) |
Nasogastric tube nasoenteric tube |
19(76) 6(24) |
22(88) 3(12) |
23(92) 2(8) |
24(96) 1(4) |
5.149# | 0.161 |
# is the likelihood ratio.