Table 2 Baseline characteristics of the propensity matched cohort
From: Increased risk of ischemic stroke in patients with burn injury: a nationwide cohort study in Taiwan
Variables, n(%) | Burn injury group | Unexposed group | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 1763 | n = 176300 | ||||
Male | 1028 | 58.3 | 101561 | 57.6 | 0.552 |
Mean age (SD) | 46.6 | 17.4 | 46.0 | 17.3 | 0.155 |
Socioeconomic status | 0.410 | ||||
Low | 847 | 48.0 | 82936 | 47.0 | |
Moderate | 736 | 41.8 | 73690 | 41.8 | |
High | 180 | 10.2 | 19674 | 11.2 | |
Urbanization level | 0.546 | ||||
Urban | 365 | 20.7 | 38300 | 21.7 | |
Suburban | 834 | 47.3 | 82999 | 47.1 | |
Rural | 564 | 32.0 | 55001 | 31.2 | |
Charlson Comorbidity Index | 0.441 | ||||
0 | 1096 | 62.2 | 111944 | 63.5 | |
1 | 402 | 22.8 | 39449 | 22.4 | |
≥2 | 265 | 15.0 | 24907 | 14.1 | |
Diabetes | 181 | 10.3 | 16578 | 9.4 | 0.217 |
Hypertension | 291 | 16.5 | 28058 | 15.9 | 0.500 |
Coronary artery disease | 135 | 7.7 | 12299 | 7.0 | 0.264 |
Hyperlipidemia | 173 | 9.8 | 16819 | 9.5 | 0.698 |
History of alcohol intoxication | 34 | 1.9 | 2653 | 1.5 | 0.147 |
Malignancies | 23 | 1.3 | 2300 | 1.3 | 1.000 |
heart failure | 20 | 1.1 | 1630 | 0.9 | 0.360 |
Atrial fibrillation | 6 | 0.3 | 555 | 0.3 | 0.849 |
Smoking | 1 | 0.1 | 81 | 0.1 | 0.834 |
Peripheral artery disease | 13 | 0.7 | 1169 | 0.7 | 0.702 |
Stroke | 62 | 3.5 | 6798 | 3.9 | 0.462 |
Mean Propensity score (SD) | 0.0051 | 0.0063 | 0.0041 | 0.0043 | <0.001 |