Global Differences in Risk Factors, Etiology, and Outcome of Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults-A Worldwide...

Mina A Jacob¹, Merel S Ekker¹, Youssra Allach¹+60

• ¹From Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (M.A.J., M.S.E., Y.A., M.C., C.J.M.K., A.M.T., F.-E.d.L.), Department of Neurology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Neurology (K.A., N.M.-M., T.T., J.P.), Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland; National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery of Mexico (A.A.), Manuel Velasco Suárez, Mexico City; Department of Neurology (M.A.), Inselspital, University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Cerebrovascular Disease Center (H.-J.B., K.-J.L.), Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, South Korea; Neurology Department (L.B., P.B., G.P.), Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Neurosciences Department (M.A.B.), Hospital Dr. Rafael A. Calderon Guardia, CCSS, San Jose, Costa Rica; Neurocenter (M.B., N.A.M.M.), Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Luzern, Switzerland; The Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (R.B.), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Belgium; Department of Neurology (R.B.), ZorgSaam Hospital, Terneuzen, the Netherlands; International School of Traditional Medicine (B.C.) and Department of Neurology, School of Medicine (B.D.), Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Department of Global Health (E.C.), School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan; U1172-LilNCog-Lille Neuroscience & Cognition (C.C.), Univ Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille; Team VINTAGE (S.D.), Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Inserm, University of Bordeaux, France; School of Medicine (A.D.) and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health (D.T.), Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Department of Neurology (C.E., S.F.-H., F.F., T.G.) and Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.E., T.G.), Medical University of Graz, Austria; Department of Neurology (E.E., N.Y.), Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Turkey; Center for Neurovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology (A.F., U.W.-A.), Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; SARAH Hospital of Rehabilitation (T.F.H., V. Montanaro), Brasilia, Brazil; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine (C.J.), and Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology (K.J.), the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg; Departments of Clinical Genetics and Genomics (C.J.) and Neurology (K.J.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Neurology (K.Y.S.), College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; Department of Neurology (S.K.), Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; Department of Neurology (T.K.), Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (J.K., R.V.), University of Tartu, Estonia; Neurological Institute (V.K., V. Mifsud, B.P.-J.), Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Department of Neurology (T.-H.L.), Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center; College of Medicine (T.-H.L.), Chang Gung University, Guishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Neurology (J.P.M., M.V.-B.), Hospital de Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental and CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Department of Neurology (M.M.M.), G.B. Pant Institute of Medical Education and Research (GIPMER), New Delhi, India; Department of Neurology (V.B.P.), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Mayville, South Africa; Department of Neurology (M.C.P.), Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand; Department of Medicine (Neurology), University Health Network (A. Pikula), and Department of Medicine (Neurology) (R.H.S.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Neurology (J.R.-S.), Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde, Guadalajara, Mexico; Department of Neurology (B.v.S.), University Medicine, Greifswald, Germany; Department of Medicine (K.-S.T.), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur; Rambam Healthcare Campus (D.T.), Haifa, Israel; Stroke Theme (V.T.), Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne; Department of Neurology (V.T.), Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Neurology (T.Y.W.), Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand; and Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences (A. Pezzini), Neurology Clinic, University of Brescia, Italy.+1