A Prospective Study of Stroke Characteristics, Risk Factors, and Mortality in a Tertiary Hospital of Northern Ethiopia

Figures & data

Table 1 Demographic and Baseline Characteristics of Stroke Patients Admitted TO ACSH from November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2019

	Frequency (n=272)	Percent	95% CI
			Lower Limit	Upper Limit
Age Category
<25 Years	6	2.2%	0.9	4.5
25–34 Years	9	3.3%	1.6	6.0
35–44 Years	25	9.2%	6.2	13.1
45–54 Years	35	12.9%	9.3	17.2
55–64 Years	54	19.9%	15.4	24.9
65–74 Years	73	26.8%	21.8	32.3
75 Years & above	70	25.7%	20.8	31.2
Gender
Male	116	42.6%	36.9	48.6
Female	156	57.4%	51.4	63.1
Residence
Urban	146	53.7%	47.7	59.5
Rural	126	46.3%	40.5	52.3
Duration of Hospital Stay
<= 5 days	100	36.8%	31.2	42.6
6–10 days	102	37.5%	31.9	43.4
11–15 days	41	15.1%	11.2	19.7
>15 days	29	10.7%	7.4	14.7
Number of Comorbidities
No Comorbidity	206	75.7	70.4	80.5
One Comorbidity	54	19.9	15.4	24.9
Two or more comorbiditIES	12	4.4	2.4	7.4
Type of Stroke
Ischemic stroke	171	62.9%	57.0	68.4
Hemorrhagic stroke	101	37.1%	31.6	43.0

Figure 1 Proportion of Risk factors among patients with at least one identified risk factor in ACSH.

Figure 2 Numbers of identified risk factors in stroke patients admitted to ACSH, November 1, 2018 -October 2019.

Figure 3 Identified risk factors among 272 stroke patients admitted to ACSH from November 1, 2018 -October 31, 2019.

Table 2 Outcome and Complications of Stroke Patients Admitted to ACSH from November 1, 2018–October 31, 2019

	Frequency (n=272)	Percent	95% CI of Percent
			Lower Limit	Upper Limit
Outcome of Hospitalization
Death	37	13.6	9.9	18.1
Discharge	230	84.6	79.9	88.5
Referred to better set-up	2	0.7	0.2	2.3
Transferred to continue same treatment	3	1.1	0.3	2.9
Condition at Discharge (n=230)
Improved	173	75.2	69.3	80.5
Same condition	14	6.1	3.5	9.7
Left Against Medical Advice	43	18.7	14.1	24.1
Types of Complication
No complications	223	82.0	77.1	86.2
Aspiration pneumonia	32	11.8	8.3	16.0
Hospital-acquired pneumonia	3	1.1	0.3	2.9
Acute kidney injury	3	1.1	0.3	2.9
Other complications of hospitalization	2	0.7	0.2	2.3
Electrolyte abnormalities	1	0.4	0.0	1.7
Other complications of disease progression	4	1.5	0.5	3.5
Complications from both Hospitalization & Disease progression	4	1.5	0.5	3.5

Table 3 Predictors of in-Hospital Mortality Among Patients Admitted with the Diagnosis of Stroke, ACSH, n=272

Variables	Death, n (row %)		COR [95% CI]	AOR [95% CI]	P value
	No	Yes
Age in years
≤40	28 (82.4)	6 (17.6)	1	1
>40	207 (87.0)	31 (13.0)	0.7 [0.3, 1.8]	0.9 [0.3, 2.5]	0.847
Gender
Male	98 (84.5)	18 (15.5)	1.3 [0.7, 2.7]	1.4 [0.7, 2.9]	0.354
Female	137 (87.8)	19 (12.2)	1	1
Comorbidity
Yes	53 (80.3)	13 (19.7)	1.9 [0.9, 3.9]	2.0 [0.9, 4.4]	0.074
No	182 (88.4)	24 (11.6)	1	1
Complication
Yes	37 (75.5)	12 (24.5)	2.5 [1.2, 5.6] *	2.4 [1.1, 5.3] *	0.028
No	198 (88.8)	25 (11.2)	1	1
Type of stroke
Ischemic	152 (88.9)	19 (11.1)	1	1
Hemorrhagic	83 (82.2)	18 (17.8)	1.7 [0.9, 3.5]	1.8 [0.9, 3.8]	0.108

Notes: *(Bold text)- result showing significant association.