Research Article
Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Mortality in Patients with Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
Table 1
Basic characteristics and past history.
| Variables | Death group | Survival group | value |
| Sex (female/male) | 3/13 | 11/65 | 0.665 | Age (years) | | | 0.421 | History of hypertension (%) | 31.3 | 17.1 | 0.195 | History of lupus (%) | 62.5 | 32.9 | 0.027 | SBP at presentation (mmHg)a | | | 0.546 | Blood transfusion history within 1 month (%) | 31.3 | 6.6 | 0.004 | Pregnancy (%) | 12.5 | 55.3 | 0.002 | Operation history within 1 month (%) | 12.5 | 1.3 | 0.077 | Hypertension at the onset (%) | 87.5 | 82.9 | 0.650 |
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aThe first SBP measured after an attack.
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