Research Article
Stress Hyperglycaemia Indicates Embolus Size and Localization in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Table 2
Association of stress hyperglycaemia with patient characteristics.
| | | FET (univariate analysis) | Logistic regression (multivariate analysis) | | Odds ratio (95% CI) | | Odds ratio (95% CI) |
| | Patients without DM (154) | | | | | | Sex | 0.2336 | 1.5926 (0.806–3.1467) | — | — | | Age | 0.0669 | 2.1175 (0.9862–4.5464) | — | — | | Diabetes mellitus | — | | — | — | | Thromboembolic history | 1.0000 | 1.0714 (0.4426–2.5938) | — | — | | Malignancy | 0.3601 | 1.4059 (0.6831–2.8936) | — | — | | Embolus localization | 0.1434 | 1.8238 (0.8607–3.8647) | — | — | | PESI class | 0.0022 | 2.8700 (1.4639–5.6265) | 0.0075 | 2.8030 (1.3169–5.9662) |
| | All patients (190) | | | | | | Sex | 0.2925 | 1.4138 (0.7797–2.5637) | — | — | | Age | 0.0670 | 1.9642 (1.0005–3.8561) | — | — | | Diabetes mellitus | 0.0004 | 4.4516 (1.9601–10.1101) | 0.0009 | 4.2590 (1.8136–10.0015) | | Thromboembolic history | 0.6867 | 1.5297 (0.5708–2.7799) | 0.6829 | — | | Malignancy | 0.1926 | 1.5597 (0.8165–2.9680) | 0.5244 | — | | Embolus localization | 0.0248 | 2.0918 (1.0812–4.0468) | 0.0161 | 2.3844 (1.1752–4.8380) | | PESI class | 0.0284 | 2.0918 (1.0812–4.0468) | 0.0048 | 2.7514 (1.3610–5.5625) |
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FET is the Fisher exact test; logistic regression; and significant values are marked in bold. |
