Antiplatelet therapy and the outcome of subjects with intracranial injury: the Italian SIMEU study

Table 3 Logistic model of variables considered in predicting unfavorable outcome insubjects with head injury

Covariates	Odds Ratio	95% CI	P value
Sex (males)	1.30	0.75 to 2.26	0.348
Age (decades)	1.33	1.11 to 1.59	0.002
Road accidents	0.85	0.42 to 1.70	0.641
Glasgow Coma Scale	12.94	6.26 to 26.78	< 0.001
Basal skull fracture	0.87	0.35 to 2.12	0.754
Marshall category	3.03	2.09 to 4.39	< 0.001
Type of lesion
Subdural hematoma	0.57	2.78 to 1.16	0.119
Epidural hematoma	0.78	0.31 to 2.00	0.607
Intracerebral hemorrhage/contusion	0.46	0.22 to 0.94	0.034
Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage	0.76	0.36 to 1.62	0.481
Intraventricular hemorrhage	2.07	0.86 to 4.96	0.104
Depressed skull fracture	0.75	0.25 to 2.24	0.608
Number of lesions (≥ 2)	1.99	0.77 to 5.10	0.153
Anticoagulant therapy	1.01	0.44 to 2.32	0.971
Antiplatelet therapy	1.02	0.57 to 1.84	0.938

Marshall category (category 2-3-4) and age (decades) were considered ascontinuous variables, Glasgow Coma scale for categories (mild andmoderate-severe; the lower score the higher risk). The remaining variableswere dichotomized.

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