Contrast Medium Use in Computed Tomography for Patients Presenting with Headache: 4-year Retrospective Two-Center Study in Central and Western Regions of Ghana
Table 2
Comparison of contrast CT and noncontrast CT head diagnosis of patients presenting with headache, 2017–2020.
Category
Contrast
-value
Noncontrast
-value
Abnormal, n = 166 (%)
Normal, N = 216 (%)
Abnormal, n = 36 (%)
Normal, N = 59 (%)
Age (years)
Mean (±SD)
42.79 (±19.88)
35.49 (±15.33)
0.012α
44.22 (±12.79)
37.48(±15.51)
0.598α
1–10
4 (40.0)
6 (60.0)
0 (0.0)
2 (100.0)
11–20
10 (27.8)
26 (7.2)
0 (0.0)
1 (100.0)
21–30
16 (38.1)
26 (61.9)
3 (30.0)
7 (70.0)
31–40
25 (33.3)
50 (66.7)
6 (50.0)
6 (50.0)
41–50
16 (34.8)
30 (65.2)
3 (30.0)
7 (70.00)
51–60
19 (61.3)
12 (38.7)
3 (37.5)
5 (62.5)
61–70
6 (46.2)
7 (53.9)
3 (75.0)
1 (25.0)
>70
13 (72.2)
5 (27.8)
0 (0.0)
0 (0.0)
Gender
Male
95 (51.6)
89 (48.4)
0.002β
13 (34.2)
25 (65.8)
0.546β
Female
71 (35.9)
127 (64.1)
23 (40.4)
34 (59.7)
Facility
CCTH
75 (38.9)
119 (61.3)
0.055β
2 (66.7)
1 (33.3)
0.297α
RAAJ
91 (48.4)
97 (51.6)
34 (36.9)
58 (63.0)
Type of headache
Acute/severe
13 (52.0)
12 (48.0)
0.799β
2 (40.0)
3 (60.0)
0.210α
Chronic
12 (42.9)
16 (57.1)
3 (50.0)
3 (50.0)
Traumatic
5 (50.0)
5 (50.0)
4 (80.0
1 (20.0)
Unspecified
136 (42.6)
183 (57.4)
27 (34.2)
52 (65.8)
CCTH: Cape Coast Teaching Hospital; RAAJ: RAAJ Specialist Scan Center; β Chi-square test of association; α Fischer exact test of association.
