Racial disparities in early mortality in 1,134 young patients with acute stroke

We sought to investigate potential racial disparities in early outcomes of young individuals with stroke in an international multicenter study. We evaluated consecutive patients with first-ever acute stroke aged 18–45 years from prospective databases involving 12 tertiary-care stroke centers in Nort...

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Veröffentlicht in:Neurological sciences 2014-07, Vol.35 (7), p.1041-1049
Hauptverfasser: Tsivgoulis, Georgios, Putaala, Jukka, Sharma, Vijay K., Balucani, Clotilde, Martin-Schild, Sheryl, Giannopoulos, Sotirios, Batala, Lokesh, Krogias, Christos, Palazzo, Paola, Shahripour, Reza Bavarsad, Arvaniti, Chrysa, Barlinn, Kristian, Strbian, Daniel, Haapaniemi, Elena, Flamouridou, Maria, Vadikolias, Konstantinos, Heliopoulos, Ioannis, Voumvourakis, Konstantinos, Triantafyllou, Nikos, Azarpazhooh, Mahmoud Reza, Athanasiadis, Dimitrios, Kosmidou, Maria, Katsanos, Aristeidis H., Vasdekis, Spyros N., Stefanis, Leonidas, Stamboulis, Elefterios, Piperidou, Charitomeni, Tatlisumak, Turgut, Alexandrov, Andrei V.
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Zusammenfassung:We sought to investigate potential racial disparities in early outcomes of young individuals with stroke in an international multicenter study. We evaluated consecutive patients with first-ever acute stroke aged 18–45 years from prospective databases involving 12 tertiary-care stroke centers in North America ( n  = 2), Europe ( n  = 6), and Asia ( n  = 4). Demographics, vascular risk factors, stroke subtypes, pre-stroke functional status, stroke severity, blood pressure parameters, and serum glucose at hospital admission were documented. The outcome events of interest were 30-day mortality and 30-day favorable functional outcome (FFO) defined as modified-Rankin Scale score of 0–1. A total of 1,134 young adults (mean age 37.4 ± 7.0 years; 58.8 % men; 48.6 % Whites, 23.9 % Blacks, and 27.5 % Asians; median baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score 6 points, interquartile range 2–13) were included in the analyses. The 30-day stroke mortality and FFO rates differed ( p  
ISSN:1590-1874
1590-3478
DOI:10.1007/s10072-014-1640-9