Multiple Chronic Conditions Explain Ethnic Differences in Functional Outcome Among Patients With Ischemic Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Mexican Americans (MAs) have worse stroke outcomes and a different profile of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) compared with non-Hispanic White people. MCC has implications for stroke treatment, complications, and poststroke care, which impact poststroke functional outcome (FO). We sought to assess the contribution of MCC to the ethnic difference in FO at 90 days between MAs and non-Hispanic White people.

Methods

In a prospective cohort of ischemic stroke patients (2008-2016) from Nueces County, Texas, data were collected from patient interviews, medical records, and hospital discharge data. MCC was assessed using a stroke-specific and function-relevant index (range, 0-35; higher scores greater MCC burden). Poststroke FO was measured by an average sco

SUBMITTER: Jiang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8712371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature