Income and Education as Predictors of Stroke Mortality after the Survival of a First Stroke

Table 1

Descriptive statistics (𝑛=10,487).

	Income (quartiles)				Education
	1 (lowest)	2	3	4	Compulsory	Upper secondary	University	All
Died during the followup (%)
No	83.0	90.8	94.4	94.9	90.0	90.9	93.3	91.0
Yes, from stroke	5.2	2.5	2.0	1.1	3.3	2.5	1.6	2.6
Yes, other cause	11.8	6.7	3.6	4.0	6.7	6.6	5.1	6.4
Age (%)
40–44	6.7	9.6	8.7	7.2	5.7	9.4	9.9	8.1
45–49	14.3	17.9	19.2	16.9	14.8	18.3	19.2	17.1
50–54	28.6	29.9	33.2	34.2	30.4	32.8	30.9	31.5
55–59	50.5	42.7	38.9	41.8	49.1	39.6	40.0	43.3
Sex (%)
Men	59.4	51.2	56.6	82.1	64.0	61.8	60.7	62.4
Women	40.6	48.8	43.4	17.9	36.0	38.2	39.3	37.6
Stroke category (%)
Cerebral infarction	71.4	65.7	66.8	68.7	69.8	68.1	64.7	68.1
Subarachnoid haemorrhage	8.7	15.0	15.4	12.8	11.6	13.4	15.4	13.1
Intracerebral haemorrhage	12.1	12.7	12.3	13.2	11.7	12.6	14.5	12.6
Stroke, not specified (I64)	7.7	6.6	5.5	5.3	6.8	6.0	5.4	6.2
Income 1999 (100 SEK)
Min	0	59	1627	2361	0	0	0	0
Max	57	1621	2358	16089	5335	8020	16089	16089
Median	0	956	2022	2909	1305	1621	2394	1680
Days of inpatient care
Median	11	10	9	8	10	10	9	9
No. of observations	2,458	2,605	2,725	2,699	4,035	4,501	1,951	10,487