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Original Contributions

Comparison of Definitions of Metabolic Syndrome in Relation to the Risk of Developing Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease in Finnish and Swedish Cohorts

The Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated With a Higher Resistance to Intravenous Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Women Than in Men

The Essen Stroke Risk Score Predicts Recurrent Cardiovascular Events: A Validation Within the REduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry

Differences in the Nature of Stroke in a Multiethnic Urban South African Population: The Johannesburg Hospital Stroke Register

Gene Variants Associated With Ischemic Stroke: The Cardiovascular Health Study

Microarray RNA Expression Analysis of Cerebral White Matter Lesions Reveals Changes in Multiple Functional Pathways

Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A₂ and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Improve the Stratification of Ischemic Stroke Risk in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

LDL Cholesterol and the Development of Stroke Subtypes and Coronary Heart Disease in a General Japanese Population: The Hisayama Study

Retinopathy in Ischemic Stroke Subtypes

Incidence and 10-Year Survival of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in a Population-Based Registry

The Importance of Cerebral Aneurysms in Childhood Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Population-Based Study

Intracranial Aneurysm Enlargement on Serial Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Frequency and Risk Factors

Independent Associations Between Electrocardiographic Abnormalities and Outcomes in Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Findings From the Intraoperative Hypothermia Aneurysm Surgery Trial

Atherosclerotic Burden Findings in Young Cryptogenic Stroke Patients With and Without a Patent Foramen Ovale

Association Between Recent Sports Activity, Sports Activity in Young Adulthood, and Stroke

Increased Levels of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Patients With Moyamoya Disease

Increased Expression of the Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling Pathway, Endoglin, and Early Growth Response-1 in Stable Plaques

Postoperative Cortical Neural Loss Associated With Cerebral Hyperperfusion and Cognitive Impairment After Carotid Endarterectomy: ¹²³I-iomazenil SPECT Study

Patterns and Predictors of Blood–Brain Barrier Permeability Derangements in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Blood Pressure Threshold Violations in the First 24 Hours After Admission for Acute Stroke: Frequency, Timing, Predictors, and Impact on Clinical Outcome

Optimal Tmax Threshold for Predicting Penumbral Tissue in Acute Stroke

Isolated Lateral Sinus Thrombosis: A Series of 62 Patients

The Safety of Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing in Acute Stroke Patients

Isolated Nodular Infarction

MRI Biomarkers of Vascular Damage and Atrophy Predicting Mortality in a Memory Clinic Population

Recanalization of Spontaneous Carotid Artery Dissection

Failure of Antithrombotic Therapy and Risk of Stroke in Patients With Symptomatic Intracranial Stenosis

Stem Cell Therapies as an Emerging Paradigm in Stroke (STEPS): Bridging Basic and Clinical Science for Cellular and Neurogenic Factor Therapy in Treating Stroke

Safety and Efficacy of Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients With Abnormal Hemostasis: Pooled Analysis of the MERCI and Multi MERCI Trials

Assessment of Depression After Stroke: A Comparison of Different Screening Instruments

Clinical Prediction of Functional Outcome After Ischemic Stroke: The Surprising Importance of Periventricular White Matter Disease and Race

Association Between Gait Asymmetry and Brain Lesion Location in Stroke Patients

Arm Use After Left or Right Hemiparesis Is Influenced by Hand Preference

Modified Constraint-Induced Therapy Combined With Mental Practice: Thinking Through Better Motor Outcomes

The Toronto Bedside Swallowing Screening Test (TOR-BSST): Development and Validation of a Dysphagia Screening Tool for Patients With Stroke

The Prognostic Value of Capillary Glucose Levels in Acute Stroke: The GLycemia in Acute Stroke (GLIAS) Study

Off-Hour Admission and In-Hospital Stroke Case Fatality in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program

Methodological Quality of Animal Studies of Neuroprotective Agents Currently in Phase II/III Acute Ischemic Stroke Trials

Flow-Mediated Vascular Remodeling in Hypertension: Relation to Hemodyamics

Enhanced Contractile Response of the Basilar Artery to Platelet-Derived Growth Factor in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Exaggeration of Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Transgenic Mice Carrying Human Renin and Human Angiotensinogen Genes

Protective Effect of Delayed Treatment With Low-Dose Glibenclamide in Three Models of Ischemic Stroke • Supplemental Methods

Leptin Is Induced in the Ischemic Cerebral Cortex and Exerts Neuroprotection Through NF-B/c-Rel–Dependent Transcription

Potential Role of PUMA in Delayed Death of Hippocampal CA1 Neurons After Transient Global Cerebral Ischemia

Edaravone, a Free Radical Scavenger, Inhibits MMP-9–Related Brain Hemorrhage in Rats Treated With Tissue Plasminogen Activator

Pharmacogenomic Effects of Apolipoprotein E on Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Research Letters

Differences in Risk Factors Between Black Caribbean Patients With Stroke in Barbados and South London

A Spectrum of Knock-Type Doppler Signals in the Intracranial Vessels

Doppler Ultrasound Detection of Side-Vessel Occlusion: An In Vitro Study

Lithium Upregulates Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Brain Endothelial Cells and Astrocytes

Vitamin E Suppresses Enhancement of Factor VIII-Dependent Thrombin Generation by Systemic Hypoxia

Factor V Leiden Mutation in Reocclusion After Intra-Arterial Thrombolysis

Does Study Enrollment Delay Treatment With Intravenous Thrombolytics for Acute Ischemic Stroke?

Case Reports

Novel LMNA Mutation in Atypical Werner Syndrome Presenting With Ischemic Disease

Serial Diffusion Imaging in a Case of Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes

Comments, Opinions, and Reviews

Costs of Stroke Using Patient-Level Data: A Critical Review of the Literature

Letters to the Editor

No Association of the Plasma Glutathione Peroxidase (GPx-3) Gene With Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in the German Population

Response to the Letter by Grond-Ginsbach et al

Cathepsin Enzymes and Cystatin C: Do They Play a Role in Positive Arterial Remodeling?

Response to Letter by Yetkin and Waltenberger

Should Right-to-Left Shunts Be Detected Before Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients?

Venous Hemodynamics May Enhance Collateral Perfusion and the Fibrinolytic Milieu in Paradoxical Embolism

Response to Letter by Sharma et al and Leibeskind

Recurrent Events in Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Stroke

Response to Letter by Gonzalez-Hernandez et al

25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Stroke: Possible Mediation by Statin Therapy?

Low Vitamin D Levels and Bone Mineral Density in Stroke

Response to Letters by Lee and Greenfield, and Tsuda

Delayed Cerebral Ischemia After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Is Angiographic Vasospasm an Epiphenomenon?

Response to Letter by Vergouwen et al

The Cost of Stroke Prevention

Response to Letter by Samuelson et al

When Disclosures Are More Interesting Than the Evidence

Response to Letter by Holloway and Benesch