Prevalence, cessation, and geographical variation of smoking among middle-aged and elderly adults in China: A population-based study by Qingjia Zeng, Chongyang Zhang, Feiyu Su, Yanli Wan, Wen-jun Tu, Hongpu Hu

“…Methods During 2020-2021, the China Stroke High-risk Population Screening and Intervention Program (CSHPSIP) invited participants aged ≥ 40 from 31 provinces in mainland China. …”
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Transcranial Doppler sonography follow-up study in mild vascular cognitive impairment. by Mariagiovanna Cantone, Manuela Pennisi, Giuseppe Lanza, Raffaele Ferri, Francesco Fisicaro, Francesco Cappellani, Emanuele David, Vito Nicosia, Klizia Cortese, Giovanni Pennisi, Valentina Puglisi, Rita Bella

“…When focused to younger patients (<65 years), we confirmed the significant worsening of both MoCA and StroopT but not HDRS, as well as the significant changes in PI and RI. …”
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Enhanced Benefit of STA-MCA Bypass Surgery in Chronic Terminal Internal Carotid and/or Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Patients With Impaired Collateral Circulation: Introducing a... by Cheng Qiu, Yanping Zhang, Zhiqiang Yu, Yonghui Xu, Yongjiang Huang, Tianci Huang, Jun Ma, Jinbing Zhao

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Rate and predictors of response to glucocorticoid therapy in patients of takayasu arteritis at a tertiary level hospital of Bangladesh: A longitudinal study by Farzana Shumy, Ahmad Mursel Anam, Minhaj Rahim Choudhury, Md Abu Shahin, Syed Atiqul Haq, Md Zahid Amin, Sumayia Minhaj

“…ITAS2010 1 month after steroid showed a significant difference between remission and nonremission patients (P 0.0001). …”
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Myoclonic status epilepticus with dystonia-like symptoms in patients with dementia: Report of two cases by Rosario V. Rossi, Rosanna Melis, Noemi Murdeu, Sara Lizzos, Maria Luigia Piras, Loretta Racis, Silvia Serusi, Maria Valeria Saddi

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Use of ultra-freezers of -152 °c as a viable alternative to liquid nitrogen in storing by Israa Mahmoud Alhamad, Mehmet Borga Tirpan

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Real-Time Fall Risk Assessment Using Functional Reach Test by Brian Williams, Brandon Allen, Zhen Hu, Hanna True, Jin Cho, Austin Harris, Nancy Fell, Mina Sartipi

“…Falls are common and dangerous for survivors of stroke at all stages of recovery. The widespread need to assess fall risk in real time for individuals after stroke has generated emerging requests for a reliable, inexpensive, quantifiable, and remote clinical measure/tool. …”
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An Empirical Analysis of the Current Need for Teleneuromedical Care in German Hospitals without Neurology Departments by G. W. Ickenstein, S. Groß, D. Tenckhoff, P. Hausn, U. Becker, J. Klisch, S. Isenmann

“…At present, modern telemedicine methods are being introduced, that may contribute to reducing lack of qualified stroke patient care, particularly in less populated regions. …”
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Characteristics of TSPO expression in marmoset EAE by Irene Falk, Dragan Maric, Emily Leibovitch, Pascal Sati, Jennifer Lefeuvre, Nicholas J. Luciano, Joseph Guy, Seung-Kwon Ha, David R. Owen, Franklin Aigbirhio, Paul M. Matthews, Daniel S. Reich, Steven Jacobson

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Vascular Neurology Nurse Practitioner Provision of Telemedicine Consultations by Bart M. Demaerschalk, Terri-Ellen J. Kiernan, STARR Investigators

“…Methods. Prospective stroke alert patients at participating hospitals underwent a two-way audio video telemedicine consultation with a VN-NP at a remotely located stroke center in partnership with a vascular neurologist. …”
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Identification of Protein Kinase C Isoforms Involved in Type 1 Diabetic Encephalopathy in Mice by Jiayin Zheng, Yue Wang, Song Han, Yanlin Luo, Xiuli Sun, Ning Zhu, Li Zhao, Junfa Li

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Japanese Patients’ and Physicians’ Preferences for Anticoagulant Use in Atrial Fibrillation: Results from a Discrete-choice Experiment by Ken Okumura, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiro Yasaka, Juan Marcos Gonzalez, A. Brett Hauber, Bennett Levitan, Zhong Yuan, Jean Baptiste Briere

“…**Background:** Anticoagulants are recommended for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but are associated with an increased risk of bleeding; therefore, physicians face benefit-risk tradeoffs when prescribing anticoagulants to AF patients. …”
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Brain Multimodality Monitoring: A New Tool in Neurocritical Care of Comatose Patients by Nudrat Tasneem, Edgar A. Samaniego, Connie Pieper, Enrique C. Leira, Harold P. Adams, David Hasan, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez

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Correlation of MRI Visual Scales with Neuropsychological Profile in Mild Cognitive Impairment of Parkinson’s Disease by Luiz Felipe Vasconcellos, João Santos Pereira, Marcelo Adachi, Denise Greca, Manuela Cruz, Ana Lara Malak, Helenice Charchat-Fichman, Mariana Spitz

“…The MTA scale correlated with Stroop test and Fazekas scale with figure memory test, digit span, and Stroop test according to the subgroup evaluated. …”
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Osteomyelitis and Osteonecrosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Hugh J Freeman

“…In IBD patients, the relationship between osteonecrosis and steroid use is unknown. An adverse steroid effect on bones, especially the femoral heads, may develop in some patients with IBD but, to date, this hypothesis remains unproven. …”
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False-Negative CSF Cryptococcal Antigen with Cryptococcus gattii Meningoencephalitis in Southeastern United States: A Case Report and Literature Review by Shawn Esperti, Austen Stoelting, Andrew Mangano, Dveet Patel, Jilian Sansbury, Robert Sherertz

“…The patient was started on IV steroids, induction Amphotericin and Fluconazole, followed by maintenance oral Fluconazole. …”
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Bond Strength and Deflection of Four Types of Bonded Lingual Retainers by Amin Golshah, Shirin Asadian Feyli

“…Significant differences were noted between the three-strand and all other groups in deflection (P<0.05). …”
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Clinical efficacy of different methods for treatment of granulomatous lobular mastitis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. by Yuxiang Zhou, Leilai Xu

“…Among these, Surgery + Local steroid injection + Systemic steroids therapy demonstrated superior efficacy. …”
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Ibrutinib disrupts blood-tumor barrier integrity and prolongs survival in rodent glioma model by Sanghee Lim, Minhye Kwak, Jeonghan Kang, Melissa Cesaire, Kayen Tang, Robert W. Robey, William J. E. Frye, Baktiar Karim, Donna Butcher, Martin J. Lizak, Mahalia Dalmage, Brandon Foster, Nicholas Nuechterlein, Charles Eberhart, Patrick J. Cimino, Michael M. Gottesman, Sadhana Jackson

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The Neurobiological Pathogenesis of Poststroke Depression by Chao Feng, Min Fang, Xue-Yuan Liu

“…Poststroke depression (PSD) is an important consequence after stroke, with negative impact on stroke outcome. The pathogenesis of PSD is complicated, with some special neurobiological mechanism, which mainly involves neuroanatomical, neuron, and biochemical factors and neurogenesis which interact in complex ways. …”
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