Frequency and Mortality Risk Factors of Acute Ischemic Stroke in Emergency Department in Burkina Faso

Table 2

Results of multivariate analysis.

Covariables	Odds ratio	95% CI	value	Significance
Age (<65 and ≥65 years)	1.97	0.831-4.682	0.123
Gender (M/F)	0.908	0.71-2.224	0.834
Hypertension (Y/N)	1.25	0.502-31.56	0.623
Diabetes mellitus (Y/N)	2.023	0.406-10.084	0.39
Heart disease (Y/N)	6.72	1.186-38.071	0.031	+
Previous stroke (Y/N)	0.603	0.124-2.92	0.53
Smoking (Y/N)	0.975	0.189-5.017	0.977
Alcohol (Y/N)	0.449	0.125-1.607	0.213
Consciousness disorders (Y/N)	2.692	0.59-12.28	0.031	+
Fever (Y/N)	5.06	1.663-4.353	0.004	+
Time to perform brain CT >24 h (Y/N)	1.762	0.713-4.353	0.219
Hyperglycemia (Y/N)	6.503	0.86-8.991	0.008	+
Anemia (O/N)	3.792	0.276-52.048	0.319
Renal failure (normal/altered)	1.08	0.191-6.098	0.93
Poststroke pneumonia (Y/N)	9.528	3.253-27.904	≤0.001	+
Urinary tract infection (Y/N)	15.08	2.09-108.813	0.007	+
Cutaneous infections (Y/N)	7.949	0.235-268.37	0.248
Length of stay (<7 days and ≥7 days)	1.246	0.355-4.364	0.731

+: positive impact; : no impact.