Research Article
Clinical Risk Score for Predicting Vascular Dementia after Ischemic Stroke in Thailand
Table 1
Characteristics and univariable analysis of patients with vascular dementia vs. nondementia patients.
| | Variables | Nondementia () | Vascular dementia () | value |
| | Gender: male, (%) | 89 (69.0%) | 29 (60.4%) | 0.288 | | Age (years): mean (SD) | 61.7 (11.2) | 74.5 (9.6) | <0.001 | | Education (years): mean (SD) | 9.4 (5.0) | 6.2 (4.3) | 0.001 | | Hypertension, (%) | 94 (72.9%) | 38 (79.2%) | 0.443 | | Diabetes mellitus, (%) | 48 (37.2%) | 15 (31.3%) | 0.486 | | Hyperlipidemia, (%) | 105 (81.4%) | 41 (85.4%) | 0.658 | | Coronary artery disease, (%) | 7 (5.4%) | 5 (10.4%) | 0.311 | | Atrial fibrillation, (%) | 11 (8.5%) | 9 (18.8%) | 0.065 | | History of stroke, (%) | 12 (9.3%) | 12 (25%) | 0.012 | | NIHSS: mean (SD) | 4.7 (4.0) | 4.4 (3.3) | 0.749 | | Stroke subtypes, (%) | | | 0.046 | | Small-artery occlusion | 44 (34.1%) | 11 (22.9%) | | | Cardioembolism | 12 (9.3%) | 11 (22.9%) | | | Large-artery atherosclerosis | 39 (30.2%) | 18 (37.5%) | | | Undetermined cause and others | 34 (26.4%) | 8 (16.7%) | | | White matter hyperintense lesions (Fazekas scale), (%) | | | 0.001 | | 0 | 21 (16.3%) | 4 (8.3%) | | | 1 | 79 (61.2%) | 18 (37.5%) | | | 2 | 22 (17.1%) | 16 (33.4%) | | | 3 | 7 (5.4%) | 10 (20.8%) | | | Cerebral microbleeds, (%) | | | 0.892 | | 0 | 85 (71.4%) | 30 (69.8%) | | | 1-3 | 30 (25.2%) | 11 (25.6%) | | | 4-10 | 4 (3.4%) | 2 (4.6%) | |
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NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.
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