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Effect of informed consent on patient characteristics in a stroke thrombolysis trial
Conclusions: Patients recruited by proxy consent were older, had more severe strokes, and had higher prevalence of aphasia than those with capacity to give personal consent. Variations in the manner of consent across countries may influence trial results. Clinicaltrials.gov and Clinicaltrialsregister.eu identifiers: NCT01525290 (clinicaltrials.gov); 2011-005906-32 (clinicaltrialsregister.eu).
Source: Neurology - September 25, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Thomalla, G., Boutitie, F., Fiebach, J. B., Simonsen, C. Z., Nighoghossian, N., Pedraza, S., Lemmens, R., Roy, P., Muir, K. W., Heesen, C., Ebinger, M., Ford, I., Cheng, B., Cho, T.-H., Puig, J., Thijs, V., Endres, M., Fiehler, J., Gerloff, C. Tags: MRI, All Clinical trials, All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Clinical trials Methodology/study design, All Ethics in Neurology/Legal issues ARTICLE Source Type: research

Biological age is better than chronological as predictor of 3-month outcome in ischemic stroke
Conclusions: B-age, estimated by DNA methylation, is an independent predictor of ischemic stroke outcome regardless of chronological years.
Source: Neurology - August 21, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Soriano-Tarraga, C., Mola-Caminal, M., Giralt-Steinhauer, E., Ois, A., Rodriguez-Campello, A., Cuadrado-Godia, E., Gomez-Gonzalez, A., Vivanco-Hidalgo, R. M., Fernandez-Cadenas, I., Cullell, N., Roquer, J., Jimenez-Conde, J. Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Cohort studies, Risk factors in epidemiology, All Genetics ARTICLE Source Type: research