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Risk of stroke in relation to degree of asymptomatic carotid stenosis: a population-based cohort study, systematic review, and meta-analysis

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Background There is uncertainty around which patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis should be offered surgical intervention. Although stroke rates were unrelated to the degree of stenosis in the medical-treatment-only groups in previous randomised trials, this could simply reflect recruitment bias and there has been no systematic analysis of a stenosis-risk association in cohort studies. We aimed to establish whether there is any association between the degree of asympto... Expand abstract
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30484-1

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MSD
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
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University of Oxford
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MSD
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Clinical Neurosciences
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Elsevier
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Lancet Neurology More from this journal
Volume:
20
Issue:
3
Pages:
193-202
Publication date:
2021-02-17
Acceptance date:
2020-12-09
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1474-4465
ISSN:
1474-4422

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