Abstract

Background: Comorbidities that help predict poor outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke play a part in treatment planning and provide necessary information for patients and their families. Objective: Identify comorbidities that can predict poor outcomes 90 days after the onset of acute ischemic stroke. Subjects and methods: Prospective study including 150 acute ischemic stroke patients at Trieu An Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City. Subjects recruited upon admission were collected NIHSS score and comorbidities. Subjects had modified Rankin scores collected 90 days after disease onset. Univariate analysis and multivariate regression analysis were used to determine the role of variables on stroke outcomes. Results: The mean age was 65, male accounts for 62.0%. There were 8 factors univariately associated with poor outcome after 90 days of acute ischemic stroke onset: NIHSS, age, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, heart failure, extracranial atherosclerosis and dementia. Among them, dementia is an independent prognostic factor for poor outcomes through multivariate analysis. The number of comorbidities is closely related to poor outcomes, the number of comorbidities ≥ 3 predicts patients with poor outcomes after 90 days of disease onset with a sensitivity of 96.6%; Specificity was 88.0%; The area under the curve was 96.3%. Conclusion: In acute ischemic stroke patients with comorbidities ≥ 3, the patient's prognosis is poor. In addition, dementia is an independent prognostic factor of poor outcome after 90 days from disease onset.

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