Assessment of smoking care by stroke specialists in patients with recent TIA and minor stroke: an international prospective registry-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objectives are to assess smoking abstinence and its effects on vascular risk and to report tobacco-cessation counselling and pharmacotherapy use in patients who had a recent minor stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA).

Design and setting

The TIA registry.org project is a prospective, observational registry of patients with TIA and minor stroke that occurred in the previous 7 days with a 5-year follow-up, involving 61 sites with stroke specialists in 21 countries (Europe, Asia, Latin America and Middle East). Of those, 42 sites had 5-year follow-up data on more than 50% of their patients and were included in the present study.

Participants

From June 2009 through December 2011, 3847 patients were eligible for the study (80% of the initial cohort).

SUBMITTER: Lavallee P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227765 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature