An Investigation of the Glucose Monitoring Practices of Nurses in Stroke Care: A Descriptive Cohort Study

Table 1

Characteristics of the cohort and comparison between adults grouped by history of diabetes mellitus and no history of diabetes mellitus.

Characteristic	Total; 𝑛 (%)	History DM; 𝑛 (%)	No history DM; 𝑛 (%)	𝑃 value
Demographics	112 (100)	18 (16)	94 (84)
Age*, mean ± SD (range)	74±13 (24–99)	78±6.5	73±14.2	0.02
Women	61 (54%)	8 (44)	53 (56)	0.5
Risk factors/comorbidities
Atrial fibrillation	22 (20%)	3 (17)	19 (20)
Previous stroke or TIA	41 (37%)	6 (33)	35 (37)	0.96
Hyperlipidaemia	51 (45%)	12 (67)	39 (41)	0.08
Hypertension^†	48 (42%)	14 (78)	34 (36)	0.003
MI or angina	27 (24%)	7 (39)	20 (21)	0.19
Valvular heart disease	4 (4%)	0 (0%)	4 (4)
Current smoker	13 (12%)	0 (0)	13 (14)
Stroke type after scan
Ischemic stroke/TIA	95 (85%)	16 (89)	79 (84)
Primary haemorrhagic stroke	17 (15%)	2 (11)	15 (16)

DM: diabetes mellitus, TIA: transient ischaemic attack, and MI: myocardial infarction. An independent sample 𝑡-test compared *age across the two groups, and there was a significant difference. A chi-square test for independence (with Yates continuity correction) found a significant difference in rates of ^†hypertension between the two groups. 𝑃 values < 0.05 indicate significance. If counts in cells were less than five, statistical analysis was not conducted.