Research Article
Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated with Worse Prognosis Than Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Cerebral Infarction
Table 1
Comparison between patients with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation.
| | | Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation | Persistent atrial fibrillation | |
| | Total | 141 | 129 | | | Age, mean (standard deviation (SD)) | 76.5 (10.2) | 82.9 (8.5) | <.001 | | NIHSS on admittance median (interquartile range (IQR)) | 5 (1–11) | 9 (3–17) | .001 | | MRS median (IQR) | 2 (1–4) | 4 (2–5) | <.001 | | Barthel index median (IQR) | 100 (60–100) | 70 (15–100) | <.001 | | NIHSS day 7 median (IQR) | 3 (0–8) | 4 (1–17) | .009 | | Systolic blood pressure mean (SD) | 163 (31) | 159 (31) | .28 | | Body temperature mean (SD) | 36.7 (.7) | 36.7 (.7) | .66 | | Glucose mean (SD) | 6.4 (2.0) | 7.3 (2.2) | .001 | | CRP mean (SD) | 13 (27) | 16 (28) | .38 | | D-dimer | 2.4 (4.2) | 2.5 (3.7) | .82 | | Fibrinogen | 3.8 (1.0) | 4.1 (1.0) | .08 | | Cholesterol | 5.1 (1.2) | 5.0 (1.2) | .41 | | INR among patients on warfarin mean (SD) | 2.3 (.9) | 1.8 (.6) | .002 | | NIHSS score change and thrombolysis | 5.6 (5.5) | (10.9) | .06 |
| | | (%) | (%) | |
| | Females | 58 (41) | 78 (60) | .002 | | Prior cerebral infarction | 25 (18) | 29 (22) | .36 | | Myocardial infarction | 38 (27) | 22 (17) | .05 | | Other heart disease | 32 (23) | 48 (38) | .01 | | Hypertension | 91 (65) | 82 (64) | .81 | | Diabetes mellitus | 19 (14) | 29 (23) | .06 | | Smoking | 19 (14) | 13 (11) | .44 | | Prior depression | 18 (18) | 23 (34) | .02 | | Pior warfarin | 36 (26) | 48 (37) | .04 | | Embolic (MRI) | 84 (88) | 51 (84) | .49 | | Lacunar | 12 (13) | 10 (16) | | | LACS¹ | 21 (15) | 20 (16) | .09 | | TACS¹ | 33 (24) | 47 (36) | | | PACS¹ | 67 (48) | 45 (35) | | | POCS¹ | 19 (14) | 17 (13) | | | Mortality day 7 | 2 (1.4) | 13 (10) | .002 | | Pathologic troponin | 27 (25) | 36 (34) | .18 |
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1Clinical classification according to the OCSP scale.
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