Research Article
Increased Blood Pressure Variability Is Associated with Worse Neurologic Outcome in Acute Anterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke
Table 1
Baseline demographics, imaging variables, laboratory values, and stroke risk factors.
| | Variable | All patients () |
| | Age (mean ± SD) | | | Male, (%) | 112 (52.1) | | Caucasian, (%) | 194 (90.2) | | Premorbid mRS (median, IQR) | 0 (0-1) | | Admission NIHSS (median, IQR) | 14 (8–20) | | Follow-up mRS (median, IQR) | 3 (1–6) | | Days from stroke onset to follow-up mRS (mean ± SD) | | | Dead at follow-up, (%) | 52 (24.2) | | Good neurologic outcome (mRS 0-1), (%) | 66 (30.7) | | Hypertension, (%) | 120 (55.8) | | Hyperlipidemia, (%) | 83 (38.6) | | Atrial fibrillation, (%) | 66 (30.7) | | Diabetes mellitus, (%) | 44 (20.5) | | Congestive heart failure, (%) | 33 (15.4) | | Current cigarette smoking, (%) | 48 (22.3) | | Admission glucose level (mean ± SD) | | | Admission blood urea nitrogen level (mean ± SD) | | | Admission international normalized ratio (mean ± SD) | | | IV tPA administered, (%) | 105 (48.8) | | Endovascular therapy, (%) | 131 (60.9) | | Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage, (%) | 27 (12.6) |
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