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 7

Binary logistic regression taking mRS score upon discharge as the dependent variable and sociodemographic factors, past medical history, and medication history as the independent variables.

	Mean	Standard deviation	value	95% C.I. for EXP ()
				Lower	Upper
Mean difference between mRS at baseline and at discharge	1.73	1.41	<0.001	1.45	2.01
mRS two category upon discharge		Sig.	Exp ()	95% C.I. for EXP ()
				Lower	Upper
Stroke etiology		0.017
Stroke etiology (intracranial arterial stenosis)	1.422	0.035	4.144	1.103	15.574
Stroke etiology (cardioembolism)	-0.330	0.596	0.719	0.212	2.435
ED brain imaging performed 20 minutes after patient presentation to the hospital	1.138	0.037	3.119	1.071	9.080
Hospitalization days	0.1	0.001	1.105	1.104	1.173
mRS three category upon discharge
Male gender	0.072	0.902	1.074	0.344	3.354
Administration of direct thrombin inhibitors	-0.443	0.782	0.642	0.028	14.715
Administration of antiplatelet clopidogrel	-1.039	0.375	0.354	0.036	3.507
Stroke etiology		0.151
Stroke etiology (intracranial arterial stenosis)	0.997	0.171	2.711	0.651	11.290
Stroke etiology (cardioembolism)	-0.332	0.645	0.717	0.174	2.956
ED blood glucose more than 180 mg/dL	1.200	0.001	3.301	1.072	1.261
Hospitalization days	0.059	0.01	1.061	1.014	1.109