Associations of Social, Behavioral, and Clinical Factors With Sex Differences in Stroke Recurrence and Poststroke Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few population-based studies have assessed sex differences in stroke recurrence. In addition, contributors to sex differences in recurrence and poststroke mortality, including social factors, are unclear. We investigated sex differences in these outcomes and the contribution of social, clinical, and behavioral factors to the sex differences.

Methods

First-ever ischemic stroke cases identified from 2008 to 2019 from the population-based Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi Project in Texas were included and followed for recurrence and all-cause mortality through 2020. Sex differences in outcomes with and without adjustment for potential confounding factors, including social, behavioral, and clinical factors, were examined using Cox proportional hazard models

SUBMITTER: Chen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11835519 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature