Impact of Thyroid Hormone Levels on Functional Outcome in Neurological and Neurosurgical Early Rehabilitation Patients

Table 3

Characteristics of patients with favorable and unfavorable functional status at the end of NNER treatment.

	Functional status		Significance
	Favorable; ()	Unfavorable; ()
On admission
Age (years)	61.7 (±15.2)	69.1 (±14.9)	0.000
ERBI	−29 (±57.8)	−48 (±56.7)	0.000
GCS	12.3 (±3.0)	10.2 (±3.6)	0.000
Time between injury and admission	22.5 (±18.2)	24.4 (±28.6)	0.663
Duration of acute treatment	21.9 (±13.4)	22.2 (±20.3)	0.108
Total T3	0.97 ± 0.461	0.95 ± 0.54	0.024
Free T4	1.03 ± 0.28	1.08 ± 0.37	0.110
TSH	1.26 ± 0.83	1.23 ± 0.94	0.305
At discharge
ERBI	29.9 (±26.1)	−26.3 (±52.2)	0.000
ERBI gain	58.9 (±62.0)	21.6 (±44.2)	0.000
Length of stay	34.9 (±23.8)	51.7 (±29.8)	0.000
Number of interruptions	7.3 (±3.8)	7.8 (±5.4)	0.002