Table 3.
Predictors of 30-day mortality among adult stroke patients admitted to stroke unit of JUMC.
| Variables | Died at 30-day | Alive at 30-day | CHR 95%CI |
p-value | AHR 95%CI |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCS of the patient on hospital arrival | ≤8 | 12 | 5 | 9.00 (3.76–21.54) | <0.001 | ||
| 9–12 | 13 | 20 | 3.66 (1.56–8.57) | 0.003 | |||
| 13–15 | 9 | 56 | 1.00 | ||||
| NIHSS at hospital arrival | ≥13 | 31 | 41 | 8.01 (2.45–26.23) | 0.001 | 6.49 (1.90–22.22) | 0.003 |
| <13 | 3 | 40 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Temperature at hospital arrival | >37.1 °C | 10 | 6 | 3.03 (1.44–6.36) | 0.003 | ||
| ≤37.1 °C | 24 | 75 | 1.00 | ||||
| Neck stiffness presentation | Yes | 8 | 7 | 2.32 (1.05–5.18) | 0.037 | ||
| No | 26 | 74 | 1.00 | ||||
| Comatose presentation | yes | 7 | 4 | 4.66 (2.02–10.77) | <0.001 | ||
| No | 27 | 77 | 1.00 | ||||
| Diagnosis | Clinically | 22 | 32 | 2.57 (1.27–5.19) | 0.009 | 3.90 (1.49–10.26) | 0.006 |
| Imaging | 12 | 49 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Type of the stroke | Hemorrhagic | 23 | 33 | 2.56 (1.25–5.25) | 0.011 | ||
| Ischemic | 11 | 48 | 1.00 | ||||
| ALT level | Elevated | 7 | 9 | 2.60 (1.06–6.37) | 0.038 | 3.77 (1.34–10.57) | 0.012 |
| Normal | 15 | 63 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Brain edema complication | Yes | 20 | 15 | 4.86 (2.44–9.60) | <0.001 | 4.28 (1.61–11.37) | 0.004 |
| No | 14 | 66 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Aspiration pneumonia | Yes | 12 | 11 | 2.88 (1.42–5.83) | 0.003 | ||
| No | 22 | 70 | 1.00 | ||||
*AHR: Adjusted Hazard ratio, ALT: Alanine amino transferase, CHR: Crudes hazard ratio, GCS: Glasgow coma scale, 30D: Within 30 day mortality after admission, NIHSS: national institute of health stroke scale.