Causes of death during the long term follow up of the patients with intracerebral haemorrhage who survived the first 28 days
| Cause of death | ICH patient deaths (%) | Population deaths (%) | Odds ratio (95% CI) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The population figures are the annual average numbers for the five year period 1994 to 1998 of the population of Central Finland. | ||||||
| CI, confidence interval; ICH, intracerebral haemorrhage; MI, myocardial infarction. | ||||||
| Cerebrovascular diseases | 54 (34.0) | 285 (11.4) | 4.0 (2.8 to 5.7) | |||
| First intracerebral haemorrhage | 14 | NA | ||||
| Recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage | 13 | NA | ||||
| Acute stroke (infarct/non-defined) | 27 | NA | ||||
| Cardiovascular diseases | 38 (23.9) | 888 (35.6) | 0.6 (0.4 to 0.8) | |||
| Coronary heart disease/MI | 25 (15.7) | 700 (28.1) | 0.5 (0.3 to 0.7) | |||
| Other cardiac disease | 7 (4.4) | 91 (3.6) | 1.2 (0.6 to 2.7) | |||
| Other vascular diseases | 6 (3.8) | 97 (3.9) | 1.0 (0.4 to 2.2) | |||
| Pneumonia | 29 (18.2) | 135 (5.4) | 3.9 (2.5 to 6.0) | |||
| Malignant diseases | 14 (8.8) | 501 (20.0) | 0.4 (0.2 to 0.7) | |||
| Trauma | 3 (1.9) | 125 (5.0) | 0.4 (0.1 to 1.2) | |||
| Miscellaneous | 16 (9.9) | 500 (20.0) | ||||
| Unknown | 5 (3.1) | 60 (2.4) | ||||
| Total | 159 | 2494 | ||||