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Is there a correlation between socioeconomic disparity and functional outcome after acute ischemic stroke?

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  • Tian Song
  • Yuesong Pan
  • Ruoling Chen
  • Hao Li
  • Xingquan Zhao
  • Liping Liu
  • Chunxue Wang
  • Yilong Wang
  • Yongjun Wang

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Background: To investigate the impact of low socioeconomic status (SES), indicated by low level of education, occupation and income, on 3 months functional outcome after ischemic stroke. Methods: We analyzed data from the China National Stroke Registry (CNSR), a multicenter and prospective registry of consecutive patients with acute cerebrovascular events occurred between September 2007 and August 2008. 11226 patients with ischemic stroke had SES and clinical characteristics data collected at baseline and mRS measured as indicator of functional outcome in 3 months follow up. Multinomial and ordinal logistic regression models were performed to examine associations between SES and the functional outcome. Results: At 3 months after stroke, 5.3% of total patients had mRS scored at 5, 11.3% at score 4, 11.1% at score 3, 14.4% at score 2, 34.2% at score 1 and 23.7% at score 0. Compared to patients with educational level of ≥ 6 years and non-manual laboring, those

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  • Tian Song & Yuesong Pan & Ruoling Chen & Hao Li & Xingquan Zhao & Liping Liu & Chunxue Wang & Yilong Wang & Yongjun Wang, 2017. "Is there a correlation between socioeconomic disparity and functional outcome after acute ischemic stroke?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(7), pages 1-11, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0181196
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181196
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