Table 4

Associations between socioeconomic deprivation and access to atrial fibrillation medical follow-up in SLSR of 1995–2010

Socioeconomic deprivation	Atrial fibrillation medication*
	Yes		No		p Value	Multivariate adjusted
	n	Per cent	n	Per cent	p Value	OR†	95% CI	p Value
At 3 months
Deprivation
No	45	35.2	47	18.5
Yes	83	64.8	207	81.5	0.000	0.46	0.27 to 0.79	0.005
At 1 year
Deprivation
No	37	30.8	53	22.5
Yes	83	30.7	183	77.5	0.086	0.75	0.42 to 1.31	0.311
At 2 years
Deprivation
No	22	25.3	37	20.6
Yes	65	74.7	143	79.4	0.382	0.93	0.45 to 1.94	0.856
At 3 years
Deprivation
No	27	29.0	33	22.3
Yes	66	71.0	115	77.7	0.239	0.69	0.33 to 1.43	0.316
At 4 years
Deprivation
No	19	25.0	33	23.7
Yes	57	75.0	106	76.3	0.837	0.79	0.36 to 1.72	0.554
At 5 years
Deprivation
No	21	32.8	19	16.7
Yes	43	67.2	95	83.3	0.013	0.39	0.17 to 0.88	0.024

*Based on patients having atrial fibrillation.
†OR—adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, living conditions before stroke, period of stroke, BI (each analysis changed at its data collection), stroke subtype, Glasgow coma scale sore (≥13), incontinence, speech deficit and motor deficit.
BI, Barthel index; SLSR, South London Stroke Register.