Table 1.
General characteristics of study participants.
| Variables | No stroke |
Stroke |
P-value | AOR |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 9249) | (N = 248) | (95% CI) | |||
| Age | 40–59 | 5207 (68.1) | 43 (26.4) | <0.001∗ | NA |
| ≥60 | 4042 (31.9) | 205 (73.6) | NA | ||
| Sex | Male | 3870 (47.3) | 125 (56.7) | 0.011∗ | NA |
| Female | 5379 (52.7) | 123 (43.3) | NA | ||
| Education | Elementary | 2783 (24.3) | 138 (51.4) | <0.001∗ | 3.77(1.96–7.24)∗∗ |
| Middle | 1325 (13.6) | 48 (18.8) | 3.70(1.87–7.30)∗∗ | ||
| High | 2933 (35.1) | 42 (20.3) | 1.69 (0.84–3.40) | ||
| ≥ College | 2208 (27.0) | 20 (9.5) | 1 | ||
| Home income | Low | 1981 (18.0) | 118 (47.5) | <0.001∗ | 3.26(1.84–5.76)∗∗ |
| Middle-low | 2408 (24.9) | 59 (22.1) | 1.45 (0.80–2.63) | ||
| Middle-high | 2315 (27.0) | 40 (14.2) | 0.95 (0.52–1.71) | ||
| High | 2545 (30.1) | 31 (16.2) | 1 | ||
| National health insurance | |||||
| Medical care-assistance | 341 (3.6) | 31 (14.5) | <0.001∗ | 3.80(2.00–7.21)∗∗ | |
| Workplace | 5192 (61.3) | 127 (49.9) | 0.78 (0.55–1.12) | ||
| Region | 2869 (35.1) | 75 (35.6) | 1 | ||
| Employment status | |||||
| Unemployed | 3860 (36.8) | 178 (66.9) | <0.001∗ | 2.34(1.55–3.53)∗∗ | |
| Employed | 5389 (63.2) | 70 (33.1) | 1 | ||
| Alcohol | Experienced | 7840 (87.1) | 188 (79.8) | 0.001∗ | 0.66 (0.47–0.93) |
| Never | 1409 (12.9) | 60 (20.2) | 1 | ||
| Smoking | Experienced | 3559 (43.2) | 119 (53.5) | 0.005∗ | 1.69(1.10–2.59)∗∗ |
| Never | 5690 (56.8) | 129 (46.5) | 1 | ||
| Diabetes | Yes | 901 (9.4) | 83 (33.0) | <0.001∗ | 2.92(2.07–4.13)∗∗ |
| No | 7501 (90.6) | 150 (67.0) | 1 | ||
| Hypertension | Yes | 2422 (23.9) | 158 (62.9) | <0.001 | 3.24(2.22–4.74)∗∗ |
| No | 5980 (76.1) | 75 (37.1) | 1 | ||
| BMI | Overweight | 3283 (35.5) | 99 (39.7) | 0.232 | 0.71 (0.29–1.71) |
| Health | 5753 (62.2) | 140 (56.6) | 0.60 (0.25–1.43) | ||
| Underweight | 213 (2.3) | 9 (3.7) | 1 | ||
N: unweighted (%:weighted), NA: not applicable.
∗P < 0.05 by chi-square test.
∗∗Adjusted for sex and age.
AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.