Impact of Relative Blood Glucose Changes on Mortality Risk of Patient with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Treated with Mechanical Thrombectomy.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The impacts of stress hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia on mortality of acute ischemic stroke patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT) are largely unclear. This study aimed to use stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) to evaluate the influence of pretreatment relative blood glucose changes on mortality risk after MT.

METHODS: The study retrospectively enrolled 321 acute ischemic stroke patients treated with MT. SHR was calculated as random blood glucose at admission divided by average blood glucose which estimated by glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c). Patients with HbAlc greater than or equal to 6.5% were considered to have background hyperglycemia, patients were tertiled according to their SHR. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze 90 days mortality between SHR categories.

RESULTS: Compared with the middle tertiles group (Q2) which the blood glucose is closet to baseline glycaemia, patients in the lowest tertiles group (Q1) and highest tertiles group (Q3) have a higher mortality risk (odds ratio [OR], 3.80; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.31-11.06) (OR, 3.18; 95% CI, 1.25-8.12), the differences is still significant after further adjusted for admission hyperglycemia (≥11.1 mmol/L). In patients without background hyperglycemia, the mortality risk is significantly higher in Q3 group (OR, 3.01; 95% CI, 1.06-8.53), no significant differences was found between three groups after adjusted for admission hyperglycemia (≥11.1 mmol/L).

CONCLUSIONS: SHR identified acute ischemic stroke patients with relative hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia may have higher mortality risk after MT.