Admission parameters, in-hospital complications and procedures
| All strokes | Acute ischaemic stroke | Intracerebral haemorrhage | Stroke of undetermined pathology | |||||
| HF (n=15 397) | No HF (n=593 493) | HF (n=11 522) | No HF (n=359 005) | HF (n=2464) | No HF (n=170 772) | HF (n=1411) | No HF (n=63 716) | |
| Admission parameters | ||||||||
| Fever | 147 (0.95) | 4214 (0.71) | 102 (0.89)* | 2646 (0.74)* | 27 (1.10)* | 1121 (0.66)* | 18 (1.28)* | 447 (0.70)* |
| Hyperglycaemia | 231 (1.50) | 7328 (1.23) | 179 (1.55)* | 4936 (1.37)* | 30 (1.22)* | 1834 (1.07)* | 22 (1.56)* | 558 (0.88)* |
| Hypoglycaemia | 360 (2.34) | 6958 (1.17) | 291 (2.53) | 4683 (1.30) | 39 (1.58) | 1544 (0.90) | 30 (2.13) | 731 (1.15) |
| In-hospital complications | ||||||||
| Death | 3766 (24.46) | 84 645 (14.26) | 2602 (22.58) | 28 357 (7.90) | 989 (40.14) | 52 850 (30.95) | 175 (12.40) | 3438 (5.40) |
| Recurrent stroke | 26 (0.17) | 1238 (0.21) | 17 (0.15) | 696 (0.19) | 6 (0.24) | 378 (0.22) | 3 (0.21) | 164 (0.21) |
| Respiratory failure | 3041 (19.75) | 53 090 (8.95) | 2305 (20.01) | 21 440 (5.97) | 595 (24.15) | 29 977 (17.55) | 141 (9.99) | 1673 (2.63) |
| Pneumonia | 3088 (20.06) | 43 936 (7.40) | 2281 (19.80) | 21 845 (6.08) | 613 (24.88) | 19 620 (11.49) | 194 (13.75) | 2471 (3.88) |
| Sepsis | 1161 (7.54) | 17 061 (2.87) | 881 (7.65) | 9996 (2.78) | 195 (7.91) | 5878 (3.44) | 85 (6.02) | 1187 (1.86) |
| Shock | 429 (2.79) | 4537 (0.76) | 347 (3.01) | 1964 (0.55) | 57 (2.31) | 2309 (1.35) | 25 (1.77) | 264 (0.41) |
| Myocardial infarction | 777 (5.05) | 2139 (0.36) | 619 (5.37) | 1600 (0.45) | 101 (4.10) | 389 (0.23) | 57 (4.04) | 150 (0.24) |
| Acute kidney injury | 1790 (11.63) | 18 717 (3.15) | 1408 (12.22) | 12 587 (3.51) | 268 (10.88) | 4881 (2.86) | 114 (8.08) | 1249 (1.96) |
| Coma | 101 (0.66) | 2532 (0.43) | 67 (0.58) | 1194 (0.33) | 23 (0.93)* | 1114 (0.65)* | 11 (0.78)* | 224 (0.35)* |
| Pulmonary oedema | 184 (1.20) | 644 (0.11) | 121 (1.05) | 341 (0.09) | 48 (1.95) | 263 (0.15) | 15 (1.06) | 40 (0.06) |
| In-hospital procedures | ||||||||
| Mechanical ventilation | 4912 (31.90) | 114 710 (19.33) | 3412 (29.61) | 42 179 (11.75) | 1274 (51.70) | 68 272 (39.98) | 226 (16.02) | 4259 (6.68) |
| Tracheostomy | 858 (5.57) | 20 028 (3.37) | 488 (4.24) | 5364 (1.49) | 336 (13.64) | 14 151 (8.29) | 34 (2.41) | 513 (0.81) |
| Gastrostomy | 3 (0.02)* | 89 (0.01)* | 3 (0.03)* | 44 (0.01)* | 0 (0.00)* | 38 (0.02)* | 0 (0.00)* | 7 (0.01)* |
| Thrombolysis | 302 (2.62) | 5776 (1.61) | 302 (2.62) | 5776 (1.61) | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Echocardiography | 1619 (10.52) | 14 217 (2.40) | 1426 (12.38) | 12 008 (3.34) | 115 (4.67) | 1427 (0.84) | 78 (5.53) | 782 (1.23) |
All variables are presented as frequency (percentage). All between-group differences are statistically significant (p<0.01) unless otherwise specified.
*Between-group difference not statistically significant (p>0.01).
HF, heart failure; NA, not applicable.