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ArticleJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare2021

Revisiting Spasticity After Stroke: Clustering Clinical Characteristics for Identifying At-Risk Individuals.

Fatimah Ahmedy, Nooralisa Mohd Tuah, Natiara Mohamad Hashim, Syahiskandar Sybil Shah, Ismail Ahmedy, Soo Fun Tan

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Article in Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Fatimah AhmedyRehabilitation Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-5811-4188
Nooralisa Mohd TuahFaculty of Computing & Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0001-5718-0768
Natiara Mohamad HashimDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sg. Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-6466-2551
Syahiskandar Sybil ShahDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Ismail AhmedyDepartment of Computer System & Technology, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Soo Fun TanFaculty of Computing & Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Universiti of Malaysia Sabah · MYPain and Rehabilitation Medicine · USUniversity of Malaya · MY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo collectively identify the clinical characteristics determining the risk of developing spasticity after stroke. PATIENTS AND

methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted at a single rehabilitation outpatient clinic from June to December 2019. Inclusion criteria were stroke duration of over four weeks, aged 18 years and above. Exclusion criteria were presence of concurrent conditions other than stroke that could also lead to spasticity. Recruited patients were divided into "Spasticity" and "No spasticity" groups. Univariate analysis was deployed to identify significant predictive spasticity factors between the two groups followed by a two-step clustering approach for determining group of characteristics that collectively contributes to the risk of developing spasticity in the "Spasticity" group.

resultsA total of 216 post-stroke participants were recruited. The duration after stroke (

conclusionAnalyzing collectively the significant factors of developing spasticity may have the potential to be more clinically relevant in a heterogeneous post-stroke population that may assist in the spasticity management and treatment.

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clinical characteristicsclustering analysisspasticitystroke rehabilitation

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