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Gender differences in the mortality and outcome of stroke patients in Korea
Mi-Sun Oh1, Kyung-Ho Yu, Jae-Kyu Roh
1Department of Neurology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, South Korea.
Background:
We aimed to determine gender differences in outcomes and mortality in Korean stroke patients.
Methods:
We analyzed the demographics, risk factors, in-hospital mortality, functional outcomes at discharge, and any-cause mortality over a 5-year period for 18,364 Korean patients, and determined a cumulative mortality rate using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards regression analyses to elucidate gender differences in stroke outcomes.
Results:
Women suffered strokes that were severer than those suffered by men. Although women had a lower risk of any-cause death than men, they exhibited poorer functional status at discharge.
Conclusion:
In Korea, women lived longer, but had greater disabilities after strokes than men, indicating the need to develop gender-specific interventions to improve stroke outcomes and reduce the disability burden in women.
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