Mortality‐specific comorbidity among inpatients with ischemic stroke in West China

This study aimed to investigate the current condition of mortality-specific comorbidity among hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke.Five-year data of inpatients with ischemic stroke (IS) were extracted from the hospital medical database. A retrospective review of eighteen mortality-specific comorbidities in extensively validated Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) was carried out for each patient. In addition, the distribution of the CCI-based...