Comorbidities associated with different levels of total cholesterol in male and female acute ischemic stroke patients

This study recruited AIS patients between January 2000 and June 2016 classified into normal, borderline or high total cholesterol (TC). Normal was defined as ≤200 mg/dl, borderline 200 to 239 mg/dl and high ≥240 mg/dl based on Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) Guidelines for the classification of TC levels. The logistic regression model was used to predict clinical risk factors associated within men and women AIS patients with different levels of TC. A total of 3532 AIS patients presented with normal TC, 760 patients with borderline TC and 427 patients with high TC. The high total cholesterol group was more likely to be women with increasing age (OR = 1.028, 95% CI, 1.006–1.052, P = .014), body mass index (BMI) (OR = 1.052, 95% CI, 1.004–1.102, P = .033), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (OR = 1.039, 95% CI, 1.019–1.060, P 
Source: Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research