Association between annual household income and adverse outcomes in patients who had ischaemic stroke
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The association between annual household income and prognosis of ischaemic stroke remains debatable. We aimed to prospectively investigate the relationship between annual household income and prognosis at 3 months after ischaemic stroke. METHODS: We included 3975 participants from the China Antihypertensive Trial in Acute Ischemic Stroke. All participants were categorised into three groups according to annual household income per capita: <¥10 000 (Chinese Yuan Renminbi (RMB)), ¥10 000-19 999 and ≥¥20 000. The primary outcome was a composite outcome of death and major disability (modified Rankin Scale score ≥3) at 3 months after stroke onset, and secondary outcomes included major disability, death, and vascular events. A meta-analysis was conducted to incorporate the results of the current study and previous studies on the association of income level with outcomes after stroke. RESULTS: =0.034) when two extreme groups were compared. The meta-analysis confirmed the significant association between income level and death or major disability after stroke (pooled relative risk for lowest vs highest income level, 1.31 (95% CI: 1.18 to 1.45)). CONCLUSIONS: Low annual household income per capita was significantly associated with increased risks of adverse clinical outcomes at 3 months after ischaemic stroke, independently of established risk factors. Further studies from other samples are needed to replicate our findings due to a reason for excluding some patients who had a severe stroke in this study. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ClinicalTrials.gov (http://wwwclinicaltrialsgov) Registry (NCT01840072)
Confidence interval · Household income · Ischemia · Ischemic stroke · Modified Rankin Scale · Relative risk · Stroke (engine) · Acute Ischemic Stroke Management · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery · Gerontology
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