Five-Year Risk of Stroke after TIA or Minor Ischemic Stroke

Pierre Amarenco1, Philippa C Lavallée1, Linsay Monteiro Tavares1

  • 1From Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Department of Neurology and Stroke Center (P.A., P.C.L., L.M.T., J.L., P.-J.T.), and the Department of Cardiology (P.G.S.), Bichat Hospital, INSERM Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science-Unité 1148, Département Hospitalo-Universitaire Fibrose Inflammation Remodelage, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne-Paris Cité, and AP-HP, Department of Biostatistics, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne-Paris Cité, Fernand Widal Hospital (É.V.), Paris, and Université Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Lille, Équipe d'Accueil 2694-Santé Publique: Épidémiologie et Qualité des Soins, Lille (J.L.) - all in France; the Stanford Stroke Center, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA (G.W.A.); the Department of Neurology, Hôtel-Dieu de France, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon (H. Abboud); the Stroke Unit, San Camillo Hospital, Rome (S.A.); Ärztliche Leitung der Klinik für Neurologie, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (H. Audebert), Klinik für Neurologie, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle, Celle (W.H.), and the Department of Neurology, Universitäts Medizin Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (M.G.H.) - all in Germany; Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel (N.M.B.); the Cerebrovascular Disease Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston (L.R.C.); Serviço de Neurologia, Hospital de Santo António-Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto (M.C.), and the Department of Neurosciences, Service of Neurology, Hospital Santa Maria, University of Lisbon, Lisbon (J.M.F.) - both in Portugal; the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia (G.A.D.); the Stroke Unit and Neurology Service, University Hospital José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico (F.G.-R.); the Neurovascular Research Unit and Health Research Board, Stroke Clinical Trials Network Ireland, University College Dublin, Dublin (P.J.K.); the Comprehensive Stroke Center, Palacký University and University Hospital Olomouc (M.K.), and the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Palacký University (D.Š), Olomouc, Czech Republic; the Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital and Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (H.-F.L.); the Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (C.M.), the Stroke Unit, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida (F.P.), and the Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Albacete University Hospital, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete (T.S.) - all in Spain; the Department of Neurology, Nowon Eulji Medical Center, Eulji University, Seoul, South Korea (J.M.P.); the Stroke Prevention Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford (P.M.R.), and the National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College, Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science Royal Brompton Hospital, London (P.G.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; the International University of Health and Welfare, Center for Brain and Cerebral Vessels, Sanno Hospital and Sanno Medical Center, Tokyo (S.U.); the Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing (Y.W.); and the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong (L.K.S.W.).

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