Patient Age and Outcome in Ischemic Stroke

Abstract

Background: Age is the most important prognostic factor in ischemic stroke. Thisstudy was carried out in patients with ischemic stroke to describe the association of age of the patients with stroke severity at presentation and at three months. Materials and Methods: The data, which were collected retrospectively from hospital records, we reanalyzed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. Age was divided into younger (≤ 50 years) and older (> 50 years) based on standard definition. Age was also divided into younger ( 50 years, p = 0.03; 68.4% poor outcome vs 47.2% good outcome in patients ≥ 60 years, p= 0.02). Conclusion: There was no significant association between young and old patients and the baseline stroke severity; however, more younger patients had good outcomes compared to older patients at three months, the differences being significant.

Keywords

• age of onset
• ischemic stroke
• nepal
• prognosis