Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Predictors of Disability in a Cohort of Jordanian Patients with the First Ischemic Stroke

Table 8

Logistic regression on the impact of independent variables on mRS score.

Variables		Wald statistic	Significance	Odds
Gender	-1.352	3.965	0.046	0.259
Age (reference less than 50)	3.393	5.216	0.022	29.746
Smoking	0.180	0.057	0.811	1.197
Dyslipidemia	-0.046	0.006	0.940	0.955
Atrial fibrillation	0.100	0.005	0.945	1.105
Diabetes	0.582	0.841	0.359	1.790
Hypertension	-0.055	0.005	0.946	0.946
Ischemic heart disease	-0.876	1.507	0.220	0.416
TOAST-subtype		5.515	0.238
(1) Large artery atherosclerosis	1.736	1.524	.217	5.674
(2) Cardioembolism	0.672	0.117	.733	1.958
(3) Small-vessel occlusion	2.120	4.037	.045	8.335
(4) Stroke of other determined etiology	3.346	3.908	.048	2.399
NIHSS-admission	0.645	25.021	0.000	1.907
Length of stay per days	0.074	1.253	0.263	1.077
Heart failure	0.945	0.985	0.321	2.572