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Seong-Min Kang1, Sun-Hyung Kim1, Kyung-Do Han2
1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Background:
Sufficient physical activity (PA) is highly recommended to improve the prognosis after stroke. However, there have been only a few studies evaluating the changes in PA level after stroke.
Aims:
We aimed to identify the changes in PA level between before and after stroke, and to determine the association between PA and adverse outcomes.
Methods:
This observational, retrospective cohort study was performed using the Nationwide Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database in South Korea. Subjects between the ages of 20 to 80 years, who had a first-ever ischemic stroke from 2010 to 2013, were included. Subjects were divided into either the "sufficient" or "insufficient" subgroups, depending on the result of the self-reported PA questionnaire. Adverse outcomes, including all-cause mortality, stroke recurrence, and myocardial infarction (MI), were collected from a post-stroke health checkup to 2017.
Results:
Of the 34,243 subjects with ischemic stroke, only 21.24% had sufficient PA level after stroke. Among those with insufficient PA level, only 17.34% improved their PA level after stroke. Subjects with sufficient PA level after stroke, regardless of their PA level prior to stroke, showed a lower risk of composite adverse outcomes (adjusted Hazard Ratio [HR], 95% CI: 0.85, 0.80-0.90). Subjects who went from insufficient to sufficient PA level (HR 0.87, 95% CI: 0.81-0.93) showed a significantly lower risk of composite adverse outcomes.
Conclusions:
Achieving a sufficient PA level after ischemic stroke appears to significantly reduce major adverse events. Further effort is needed to promote the PA level after ischemic stroke.
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