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Table 2 Relative risk of mortality in patients with neurodegenerative disease or stroke and aspiration pneumonia

From: Dysphagia as a risk factor for mortality in Niemann-Pick disease type C: systematic literature review and evidence from studies with miglustat

Source, author (year)

Patient type

Relative risk*

  

(95% CI)

Ali et al. (2008)[65]

Stroke

3.42 (0.82, 14.35)

Amare and Amanuel (2008)[66]

Epilepsy

1.90 (0.88, 4.10)

Aslanyan et al. (2004)[67]

Stroke

2.58 (1.82, 3.66)

Fernandez and Lapane (2002)[68]

Parkinson’s disease

1.51 (1.35,1.69)

Low et al. (2001)[33]

Dysphagia patients

2.58 (1.77,3.78)

Marwat et al. (2010)[69]

Stroke

3.10 (0.74, 12.93)

  1. *Relative risk calculated using Mantel-Haenszel fixed effects method.