New strategy to reduce the global burden of stroke

Valery L Feigin¹, Rita Krishnamurthi¹, Rohit Bhattacharjee¹+77

• ¹From the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies (V.L.F., R.K., R.B., P.P., A.T.), Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences (P.H., M.A., E.R.), Information Technology (T.H.), Research and Innovation Office (M.P.), Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (N.K.), Translation and Interpreting Department (I.C.), and Centre for Learing and Teaching (S.F.), Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (S.B.-C.); Department of Neurology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (P.A.B.); School of Public Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (B.A.); Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand (R.P.); Older People Care, Waitemata DHB, Auckland, New Zealand (Y.R.); Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand (M.T.); Joinville Stroke Register, University of Joinville Region, Joinville, Brazil (N.C.); Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Ministry of Health, Brazil (S.C.O.M.); Department of Neurology, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Sobral-Ceará, Brazil (L.E.T.A.F.); Stroke Foundation of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (P.L.); Department of Medicine and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (G.S.); Dijon Stroke Registry, EA4184, University Hospital and Medical School of Dijon, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (M.G., Y.B.); Department of Neurology, Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (W.H.); Janakpuri Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India (M.M.M.); Department of Neurology, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India (J.D.P.); Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Physiotherapy, Kalkaji, New Delhi, India (S.G.); All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (V.P.); Stroke Foundation of Bengal, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (D.K.M