The Role of Prestroke Glycemic Control on Severity and Outcome of Acute Ischemic Stroke

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics at baseline () by presence of diabetes mellitus.

Baseline characteristics	No diabetes mellitus ()	Diabetes mellitus ()	value
	(%)	(%)
Gender, female	219 (54.2)	39 (40.2)	0.013*
Age, years (SD)	79.2 (7.8)	76.5 (8.8)	0.003^**a
Hypertension	231 (57.2)	64 (66.0)	0.114
Hyperlipidemia	52 (12.9)	26 (26.8)	0.001***
Atrial fibrillation	139 (34.4)	29 (29.9)	0.398
Heart failure	48 (11.9)	15 (15.5)	0.344
Previous myocardial infarction	51 (12.7)	21 (21.6)	0.024*
Previous intracerebral hemorrhage	7 (1.7)	1 (1.0)	0.617
Previous ischemic stroke	99 (24.5)	32 (33.0)	0.088
Previous TIA	26 (6.4)	10 (10.3)	0.187
Stroke subtype (TOAST)
Atherothrombotic	92 (22.7)	31 (31.9)	0.053
Cardioembolic	151 (37.4)	28 (28.9)	0.127
Small vessel disease	109 (27.0)	23 (23.7)	0.537
Other causes	3 (0.7)	0	0.396
Unknown cause	48 (11.9)	14 (14.4)	0.476
Assessments, mean (SD)
Plasma glucose, mean (SD), mmol/L	7.1 (1.8)	10.2 (3.9)	<0.001^***a
HbA1c (SD), %	4.9 (0.7)	6.5 (1.6)	<0.001^***a
Systolic blood pressure, mean (SD), mmHg	166.8 (31.1)	160.6 (25.7)	0.079^a
Diastolic blood pressure, mean (SD), mmHg	92.7 (16.5)	86.0 (17.2)	0.001^***a
S-cholesterol, total (SD), mmol/L	4.3 (1.1)	5.0 (1.2)	<0.001^***a
S-LDL (SD), mmol/L	3.1 (1.0)	2.8 (2.5)	0.097^a
S-HDL (SD), mmol/L	1.5 (0.5)	1.3 (0.5)	<0.001^***a
S-TG (SD), mmol/L	1.2 (0.6)	1.5 (0.8)	<0.001^***a
NIHSS, mean (SD)	6.5 (6.8)	5.8 (7.0)	0.391^a
NIHSS > 7	109 (26.9)	19 (19.6)	0.094

values, according to chi-square test.
Mann-Whitney test.
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