Education Level and Long-term Mortality, Recurrent Stroke, and Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Ischemic Stroke.

ABSTRACT: Background Epidemiological studies have reported discrepant findings on the relationship between education level and outcomes after stroke. We aimed to prospectively investigate the relationship between education level and mortality, recurrent stroke, and cardiovascular events in Chinese patients with ischemic stroke. Methods and Results We included 3861 participants from the China Antihypertensive Trial in Acute Ischemic Stroke. Education level was categorized as illiteracy, primary school, middle school, and college. Study outcomes were all-cause mortality, stroke-specific mortality, recurrent stroke, and cardiovascular events within 2 years after ischemic stroke. A meta-analysis was conducted to incorporate the results of the current study and previous other studies on the association o

SUBMITTER: Che B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7660803 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature