Effect of Sociodemographic Factors, Concomitant Disease States, and Measures Performed in the Emergency Department on Patient Disability in Ischemic Stroke: Retrospective Study from Lebanon

Table 3

Effects of diagnostic factors on mRS categories at discharge.

		Two category mRS		value	Three category mRS		value
		0-2	>2		0-3	>3
Stroke etiology	Intracranial arterial stenosis	20 (34.5%)	8 (24.2%)	0.008	23 (32.4%)	5 (25%)	0.294
	Cardioembolism	9 (15.5%)	15 (45.5%)		16 (22.5%)	8 (40%)
	Others	29 (50%)	10 (30.3%)		32 (45.1%)	7 (35%)
Occlusion site	Internal carotid artery	12 (34.3%)	3 (14.3%)	0.276	13 (30.2%)	2 (15.4%)	0.814
	Middle cerebral artery (MCA)	14 (40%)	9 (42.9%)		16 (37.2%)	7 (53.8%)
	Middle carotid artery section M1	1 (2.9%)	3 (14.3%)		3 (7%)	1 (7.7%)
	Middle carotid artery section M2	3 (8.6%)	4 (19%)		5 (11.6%)	2 (15.4%)
	Anterior cerebral artery	1 (2.9%)	1 (4.8%)		2 (4.7%)	0 (0%)
	Posterior carotid artery	4 (11.4%)	1 (4.8%)		4 (9.3%)	1 (7.7%)
Diagnosis of hypertension at admission	Yes	19 (31.1%)	6 (17.1%)	0.31	20 (27%)	5 (22.7%)	0.853
	No	40 (65.6%)	28 (80%)		52 (70.3%)	16 (72.7%)
	Not documented	2 (3.3%)	1 (2.9%)		2 (2.7%)	1 (4.5%)