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We examined adjudicated incident cases of definite or probable myocardial infarction, any definite or probable stroke, and definite or probable ischemic stroke.
In instances where more than one non-lacunar stroke was observed in the hemisphere opposite to bodily hemiparesis, acute neuroimaging information (radiology reports, which were obtained for the STARS study) along with information on presenting clinical symptoms and probable stroke etiology was used to help distinguish the clinically-relevant stroke from pre-existing silent strokes.
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Using the pre-defined study criteria mentioned above, there were 191 definite strokes, 20 probable strokes and 11 possible strokes.
Using the predefined study criteria, there were 191 definite strokes (76%), 20 probable strokes (8%), 11 possible strokes and 11 cases of transient ischaemic attacks (4% each) i.e. 233/250 (93%) with possible or definite stroke or transient ischaemic attacks.
Validating self-reported strokes in cohort studies with information from the NHS HES database was efficient and provided information on probable non-fatal stroke events among cohort members no longer in active follow-up.
In the current study 222 out of 250 cases had definite, probable or possible stroke as per pre-defined study criteria.
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Symptoms indicating probable or definite acute stroke were defined as one positive symptom with acute onset.
The probable confounding factors of stroke, hypertension, epilepsy, anxiety, depression, and insomnia were adjusted for.
All patients who presented symptoms indicating probable or definite acute stroke were included in this analysis.
Although the raters disagreed concerning the significance of codes that were not clearly associated with cerebral haemorrhage or infarction, by restricting attention to those codes for which three or four raters agreed that acute stroke was probable, we were able to achieve consensus concerning the selection of codes.
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