Demographics and Clinical Features of Postresuscitation Comorbidities in Long-Term Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A National Follow-Up Study

Table 1

Characteristics and personal histories of OHCA survivors and comparison patients.

	OHCA survivors; (,346)		Comparison patients; (,038)
	Number	%	Number	%	value
Sex					1.000
Male	825	61.29	2475	61.29
Female	521	38.71	1563	38.71
Age (mean ± SD, y/o)					0.199
15	106	7.88	318	7.88	1.000
16–30	105	7.80	315	7.80
31–45	172	12.78	516	12.78
46–60	335	24.89	1005	24.89
61–75	336	24.96	1008	24.96
>75	292	21.69	876	21.69
Personal history
Cardiac diseases	202	15.01	195	4.83	<0.001
Diabetes	310	23.03	351	8.69	<0.001
Hypertension	423	31.43	718	17.78	<0.001
Renal failure	72	5.35	39	0.97	<0.001
Liver cirrhosis	16	1.19	11	0.27	<0.001
Stroke	52	3.86	56	1.39	<0.001
Economic level (monthly income in USD)					<0.001
<600	415	30.83	1089	26.97
601–1,000	680	50.52	2014	49.88
>1,000	250	18.57	926	22.93
Geographic region of Taiwan
Northern	732	54.38	2018	49.98	<0.001
Central	281	20.88	890	22.04
Southern	272	20.21	1013	25.09
Eastern	60	4.46	108	2.67
Urbanization					0.484
1 (most)	328	24.37	1032	25.56
2	153	11.37	404	10.00
3	368	27.34	1090	26.99
4	496	36.85	1503	37.22

OHCA: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Significant differences.