Stroke Outcome and Determinants among Patients with and without Diabetes in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana
Table 5
Factors associated with functional outcome at 6 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
1.08(1.04-1.13)
1.03(1.01-1.05)
1.07(1.03-1.12)
1.02(0.99-1.05)
Employment status
Employed
-
1.00(Reference)
-
1.00(Reference)
Unemployed
-
3.93(1.63-11.04)
-
2.17(0.75-6.89)
Retired
-
1.98(0.99-4.13)
-
0.76(0.30-1.96)
Temperature
-
1.54(1.08-2.24)
-
1.32(0.87-2.05)
Speech abnormalities
No
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
Yes
3.62(1.48-9.44)
1.93 (1.11-3.37)
2.09(0.74-6.04)
1.99(1.08-3.73)
FPG
-
1.25(1.03-1.57)
-
1.15(0.90-1.49)
Pneumonia
No
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
1.00(Reference)
Yes
13.24(2.58-242.79)
4.79(2.30-11.00)
11.32(1.93-220.05)
4.05(1.83-9.77)
Significant at 5% level, significant at 1% level, and significant at 0.1% level.
