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Article Collection: Sex and Gender Disparities in Stroke
The Sex and Gender Disparities in Stroke article collection brings you a selection of the latest and leading research addressing the sex and gender disparities associated with stroke incidence, treatment outcomes, and access to healthcare.
This collection collates articles that have been specially invited by our Guest Editors Dr. Ana Cláudia de Souza (Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Dr. Cheryl Carcel (The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, NSW, Australia) and further spontaneous contributions to Cerebrovascular Diseases and Cerebrovascular Diseases EXTRA
Conflict of Interest Statement: Dr. Ana Cláudia de Souza reports compensation as a speaker and for a research project from Boehringer Ingelheim. And Dr. Cheryl Carcel is supported by the Australian Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (102741) and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant, Emerging Leadership 1 (APP2009726). She receives research support from Bayer.
Image: iStock.com/Pornpak Khunatorn
This collection collates articles that have been specially invited by our Guest Editors Dr. Ana Cláudia de Souza (Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Dr. Cheryl Carcel (The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, NSW, Australia) and further spontaneous contributions to Cerebrovascular Diseases and Cerebrovascular Diseases EXTRA
Conflict of Interest Statement: Dr. Ana Cláudia de Souza reports compensation as a speaker and for a research project from Boehringer Ingelheim. And Dr. Cheryl Carcel is supported by the Australian Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (102741) and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant, Emerging Leadership 1 (APP2009726). She receives research support from Bayer.
Image: iStock.com/Pornpak Khunatorn

Clinical Research in Stroke
Sex Differences in Patients with Stroke: A Hospital-Based Multicenter Prospective Study in Brazil
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Gisele Sampaio Silva; Daniela Laranja Gomes Rodrigues; Monique Bueno Alves; Renata Carolina Acri Nunes Miranda; Georgiana Alvares Andrade Viana; Bento Fortunato Cardoso dos Santos; Cícera Borges Machado; Claudio Luiz Lottenberg; Miguel Cendoroglo Neto; Renato Tanjoni; João José Freitas de Carvalho
Clinical Research in Stroke
Sex Differences in Stroke in a Sri Lankan Cohort
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Udaya K. Ranawaka; Chamila D. Mettananda; Miyurangi Nugawela; Jithmi Pathirana; Jayalath Chandrasiri; Champa Jayawardena; Deepa Amarasekara; Raja Hettarachchi; Gayani Premawansa; Arunasalam Pathmeswaran
Brief Report
Julieta Rosales; Eva Rocha; Vanessa Cristina Colares Lessa; Florencia Brunet; Maria Paz Rodriguez; Vanessa Cano-Nigenda; Karen Orjuela; Ana Cláudia De Souza; on behalf of LUMNI Committee, ALATAC group
Stroke Spectrum
Rinita Mascarenhas; Dorcas B.C. Gandhi; Jaime Angeles Sesgundo; Veena Babu; Vinita Elizabeth Mani; Ivy Anne Sebastian
Original Paper
High Resting Heart Rate Is Associated with Cardiovascular Death in Patients with Stroke, Independent of Sex
Open Access
Christine Heuer; Catherine Gebhard; Ashfaq Shuaib; Ulrike Held; Susanne Wegener; On behalf of the VISTA collaborators
Clinical Research in Stroke
Lieza Geertje Exalto; Mariam Ali; Lotte J. Stolze; M. Irem Baharoglu; Marieke J.H. Wermer; L. Jaap Kappelle; on behalf of the Consortium of the Dutch Acute Stroke Audit
Original Paper
Kadie-Ann Sterling; Mary Joan MacLeod; Mark Barber; Melanie Turner
Clinical Research in Stroke
Sex Alters the Effect of Perfusion Deficits on Functional Outcome in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke Undergoing Mechanical Thrombectomy
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Dominik Wróbel; Paweł Wrona; Tomasz Homa; Klaudia Jakobschy; Gabriela Wrona; Katarzyna Sawczyńska; Mateusz Giełczyński; Tadeusz Popiela; Agnieszka Słowik; Wojciech Turaj
Systematic Review
Sarvenaz Mehrabi; Lindsay Cameron; Andrew Bowman; Jamie L. Fleet; Janice Eng; Mark Theodore Bayley; Robert Teasell
Clinical Research in Stroke
Sex Discrepancies in the Population Incidence of Stroke and Hemorrhage Related to Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter
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Mihir Khunte; Huanwen Chen; Marco Colasurdo; Seemant Chaturvedi; Ajay Malhotra; Dheeraj Gandhi
Original Paper
Sex and Gender Publications in Brain Health: A Mapping Review of the Asia-Pacific Region
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Megan Heffernan; Mark Woodward; Deidre Anne De Silva; Christopher Chen; Craig S. Anderson; Christine Kremer; Katie Harris; Else Charlotte Sandset; Maria Teresa Ferretti; Valeria Caso; Cheryl Carcel
Clinical Research in Stroke
Predictive Clinical Factors of In-Hospital Mortality in Women Aged 85 Years or More with Acute Ischemic Stroke
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Sonia Torres-Riera; Adrià Arboix; Olga Parra; Luís García-Eroles; María-José Sánchez-López
Systematic Review
Liting Yang; Jian Han; Chenghui Qin; Weiqing Shou
S.D. Shani; Ravi Prasad Varma; Sankara P. Sarma; R.S. Sreelakshmi; Ramachandran Harikrishnan; V. Raman Kutty; P.N. Sylaja
Stroke Severity among Men and Women Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients in the Telestroke Network
Open Access
Nicolas Poupore; Camron Edrissi; Mareshah Sowah; Madison Stanley; Jonah Joffe; Donovan Lewis; Taylor Cunningham; Carolyn Breauna Sanders; Krista Knisely; Chase Rathfoot; Thomas I. Nathaniel
Women and Stroke: Different, yet Similar
Open Access
Nandini Mitta; Sapna Erat Sreedharan; Sankara P. Sarma; Padmavathy N. Sylaja
Gender Equity in Leadership and Conferences of the Stroke Society of Australasia
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Cheryl Carcel; Mark Woodward; Craig S. Anderson; Candice Delcourt; Julie Bernhardt; Seana Gall
Clinical Research in Stroke
Lacune and Large Perivascular Space: Two Kinds of Cavities Are of Different Risk Factors and Stroke Risk
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Jiangtao Zhang; Fei Han; Xinyu Liang; Mingli Li; Dingding Zhang; Feifei Zhai; Lixin Zhou; Jun Ni; Ming Yao; Shuyang Zhang; Liying Cui; Zhengyu Jin; Yi-cheng Zhu
Effects of White Matter Hyperintensities on 90-Day Functional Outcome after Large Vessel and Non-Large Vessel Stroke
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Christoph Johannes Griessenauer; David McPherson; Andrea Berger; Ping Cuiper; Nelson Sofoluke; Matthew D. Adams; Saran Kunaprayoon; Ramin Zand; Jiang Li; Vida Abedi; Oded Goren; Clemens M. Schirmer; Kathleen Donahue; Marco Nardin; Anne-Karin Giese; Markus D. Schirmer; Natalia S. Rost; Philipp Hendrix
Clinical Research in Stroke
Bridging versus Direct Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Subgroup Pooled Meta-Analysis for Time of Intervention, Eligibility, and Study Design
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Simone Vidale; Michele Romoli; Domenico Consoli; Elio Clemente Agostoni