Sentence examples for stroke disability from inspiring English sources

Objective: To identify factors predicting stroke disability at discharge in a Chinese population.

The relation of modifiable risk factors to ischemic stroke disability at presentation using mRS is shown in Table 6.

Sze K-H, Wong E, Or KH, Lum CM, Woo J. Factors predicting stroke disability at discharge: a study of 793 Chinese.

Table 5 shows the relation between non-modifiable risk factors and stroke severity and disability at presentation using NIHSS and mRS. The only statistically significant difference was between age and stroke disability at presentation using mRS, disability was higher in patient with age > 45 years (P value < 0.001).

Gender and stroke disability explained 8.7% of the variance in depression scores, with stroke disability contributing significantly to MADRS depression scores (t = −2.34; P = 0.02).

Stroke disability and morbidity cause reduced quality of life (QOL) among stroke survivors [ 3].

A third of the sample had post-stroke disability (34.6%).

> Post-stroke disability represents a major public health problem throughout the world [ 1, 2].

The association of patients' pre-event socioeconomic status (SES) with post-stroke disability is not well understood.

Other studies have found stroke subtype, prior stroke event or pre-stroke disability to have a significant effect on care dependency risk [ 4, 6, 7, 18].

For example, post-stroke disability [ 11], stroke-associated cognitive impairment [ 12] and dementia [ 13] are greater in women than in men.