Stroke Outcome and Determinants among Patients with and without Diabetes in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana
Table 4
Factors associated with functional outcome at 3 months for stroke patients with and without diabetes on univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis.
Univariate
Multivariate
DM
No DM
DM
No DM
Variables
AOR(95% CI)
AOR(95% CI)
AOR(95% CI)
AOR(95% CI)
Age
1.09(1.04-1.14)
1.02(1.01-1.05)
1.12(1.05-1.21)
1.02(0.99-1.05)
Gender
Male
1.00(reference)
-
1.00 (Reference)
-
Female
2.92(1.18-7.65)
-
3.74(1.26-12.65)
-
Employment status
Employed
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
Unemployed
3.17(0.92-14,73)
4.10(1.62-12.62)
0.47(0.08-2.93)
2.45(0.83-8.33)
Retired
3.30(1.08-12.43)
1.67(0.83-3.47)
0.28(0.04-1.87)
0.79(0.31-1.98)
Temperature
-
1.63(1.13-2.42)
-
1.49(0.98-2.30)
Speech abnormalities
No
-
1.00(Reference)
-
1.00(Reference)
Yes
-
1.75(1.00-3.09)
-
1.92(1.04-3.59)
Pneumonia
No
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
Yes
11.57(2.25-212.49)
4.73(2.21-11.35)
10.46(1.75-204.60)
3.85(1.72-9.57)
Significant at 5% level, significant at 1% level, and significant at 0.1% level.
