- Title
- Treatment and outcomes of working aged adults with stroke: results from a national prospective registry
- Creator
- Lannin, Natasha A.; Anderson, Craig S.; Hill, Kelvin; Faux, Steven; Grimley, Rohan; Grabsch, Brenda; Middleton, Sandy; Donnan, Geoffrey; Cadilhac, Dominique A.; Kim, Joosup; Kilkenny, Monique; Bernhardt, Julie; Levi, Christopher; Dewey, Helen M.; Bladin, Christopher; Hand, Peter; Castley, Helen
- Relation
- Neuroepidemiology Vol. 49, Issue 3-4, p. 113-120
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000484141
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Background: Given the potential differences in etiology and impact, the treatment and outcome of younger patients (aged 18-64 years) require examination separately to older adults (aged ≥65 years) who experience acute stroke. Methods: Data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (2010-2015) including demographic and clinical characteristics, provision of evidence-based therapies and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) post-stroke was used. Descriptive statistics and multilevel regression models were used for group comparisons. Results: Compared to older patients (age =65 years) among 26,220 registrants, 6,526 (25%) younger patients (age 18-64 years) were more often male (63 vs. 51%; p < 0.001), born in Australia (70 vs. 63%; p < 0.001), more often discharged home from acute care (56 vs. 38%; p < 0.001), and less likely to receive antihypertensive medication (61 vs. 73%; p < 0.001). Younger patients had a 74% greater odds of having lower HRQoL compared to an equivalent aged-matched general population (adjusted OR 1.74, 95% CI 1.56-1.93, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Younger stroke patients exhibited distinct differences from their older counterparts with respect to demographic and clinical characteristics, prescription of antihypertensive medications and residual health status.
- Subject
- stroke; young adult; registries; stroke registries
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393929
- Identifier
- uon:33634
- Identifier
- ISSN:0251-5350
- Language
- eng
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