Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of acute ischemic stroke patients.
Figure 1.
Serum cortisol levels in acute ischemic stroke patients and control group.
Mann–Whitney U-test. All data are medians and in-terquartile ranges (IQR). Significantly higher in stroke patients as compared to normal cases (P<0.0001).
Figure 2.
Correlation between serum cortisol levels and others predictors.
(a) Correlation between the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and serum cortisol levels. (b) Correlation between the serum glucose and cortisol levels. (c) Correlation between the infract volume and serum cortisol levels.
Figure 3.
Serum cortisol levels in acute ischemic stroke patients with good and poor outcomes.
Mann–Whitney U-test. All data are interquar-tile ranges (IQR). Significantly higher in poor as compared to good group (P<0.0001).
Table 2.
Univariate and multivariate Analysis.
Table 3.
Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis.
Figure 4.
Kaplan–Meier survival curves based on cortisol quartiles.
Time to death was analysed by Kaplan–Meier curves based on cortisol quartiles.