BACKGROUND: Stroke patients are at high risk for stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP). If patients suffer from pneumonia their prognosis will worsen.
AIM: To identify factors that increases the risk of SAP in stroke patients.
METHODS: A group of 508 patients hospitalized within 5 days after the onset of stroke were enrolled prospectively.
RESULTS: The incidence of SAP was 13.4%. Some major risk factors for SAP are: mechanical ventilation (MV) had odds ratio (OR) 16.4 (p <0.01); the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) > 15 OR 9.1 (p <0.01); the Gugging Swallowing Screen (GUSS) 0-14 OR 11.7 (p <0.01).
CONCLUSION: SAP is a frequent complication. We identified some risk factors of SAP, especially stroke severity (NIHSS > 15), swallowing disorder (GUSS < 15) and mechanical ventilation.
The article mentions the results of the new analysis of gas-geochemical and high resolution shallow seismic data acquired by the sea surveys in 2016, which revealed a remarkable coincidence between the seabed gas anomalies at river mouth area of Gulf of Tonkin and the gas distortion/accumulation phenomena in the near-surface sediment layers, especially right above the large tectonic fault systems, such as Red river, Lo river and Chay river. The gas-geochemical analysis reveals the existences of thermogenic and metamorphic methane and carbon dioxide gases within the faults of Red river and on Cat Ba island, anomalies of helium and hydrogen as well as the “heavy” isotopic carbon signals of methane and carbon dioxide in the areas of near-surface active faults. These new results suggest the initial conclusions about the relationship between gas-geochemical field and tectonic fault activities in study area.
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