Research Article

Stroke Outcome and Determinants among Patients with and without Diabetes in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana

Table 3

Factors associated with functional outcome at 1 month for stroke patients with and without diabetes on univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis.

UnivariateMultivariate

DMNo DMDMNo DM
VariablesAOR(95% CI)AOR(95% CI)AOR(95% CI)AOR(95% CI)

Age1.08(1.04-1.13)1.02(1.00-1.05)1.09(1.03-1.16)1.01(0.98-1.04)
Employment status
Employed1.00(Reference)1.00(Reference)1.00(Reference)1.00(Reference)
Unemployed2.46(0.71-11.54)5.92(1.99-25.53)0.82(0.17-4.49)4.19(1.24-19.50)
Retired1.98(1.05-16.38)1.67(0.81-3.62)0.63(0.10-4.11)1.08(0.42-2.84)
FPG-1.26(1.01-1.61)-1.14(0.89-1.50)
Temperature-1.65(1.13-2.51)-1.38(0.89-2.19)
Pneumonia
No-1.00(Reference)-1.00(Reference)
Yes-5.20(2.26-14.15)-3.92(1.64-10.92)

Significant at 5% level, significant at 1% level, and significant at 0.1% level.