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

Table 6

Determinants of survival of stroke patients with and without diabetes.

Variables	Diabetes		No diabetes
	Coefficient ()	HR (95% CI)	Coefficient ()	HR (95%CI)
Pneumonia
No	0.00	1.00 (Reference)	0.00	1.00 (Reference)
Yes	0.81	2.24 (1.05, 4.82)	0.72	2.05 (1.13, 3.74)
Temperature	0.37	1.44 (1.01, 2.07)	0.41	1.51 (1.04, 2.19)
FPG	0.13	1.14 (1.02, 1.28)	0.22	1.25 (1.1,1.42)
Employment status
Employed	0.00	1.00 (Reference)	0.00	1.00 (Reference)
Unemployed	0.67	1.96 (0.74, 5.16)	0.35	1.43 (0.72, 2.81)
Retired	0.81	2.24 (0.86, 5.85)	-0.600	0.55 (0.24, 1.22)
Hypertension
No	0.00	1.00 (Reference)	0.00	1.00 (Reference)
Yes	0.45	1.56 (0.56, 4.36)	-0.270	0.76 (0.4, 1.46)
Stroke subtypes
Haemorrhagic	0.00	1.00 (Reference)	0.00	1.00 (Reference)
Ischaemic	-0.17	0.84 (0.31, 2.26)	-0.120	0.88 (0.5, 1.56)
Others	-0.47	0.62 (0.08, 5.13)	-0.970	0.38 (0.05, 2.82)
A1c status
>7%	0.00	1.00 (Reference)
≤7%	0.16	1.17 (0.55, 2.5)

CI: confidence interval, HR: hazard ratio, FPG: fasting plasma glucose, and A1c: glycated haemoglobin; significant at 5% level, significant at 1% level, and significant at 0.1% level.