Burden and impact of metabolically healthy obesity on in-hospital outcomes of acute ischemic stroke: A nationwide study

Figure 1 Flow diagram of adult acute ischemic stroke admissions from the 2020 National Inpatient Sample database. After exclusion of patients with metabolic abnormalities and missing sex or race data, 4935 patients with metabolically healthy obesity were matched 1:1 to 4935 patients in the non-metabolically healthy obesity group using propensity score matching based on age, sex, and race. MHO: Metabolically healthy obesity.

Figure 2 Forest plot showing adjusted odds ratios for in-hospital mortality in patients with acute ischemic stroke and metabolically healthy obesity compared with patients in the non-metabolically healthy obesity group, stratified by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. The X-axis was truncated at 5 for readability; the confidence interval for the Asian/Pacific Islander subgroup extends beyond the plotted range. AIS: Acute ischemic stroke; MHO: Metabolically healthy obesity; CI: Confidence interval.