Current Smoking Does Not Modify the Treatment Effect of Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients—A Post-hoc Analysis of the WAKE-UP Trial

Current Smoking Does Not Modify the Treatment Effect of Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients—A Post-hoc Analysis of the WAKE-UP Trial

Background: The “smoking paradox” indicates that patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) who smoke at the time of their stroke may have a better prognosis after intravenous thrombolysis than non-smokers. However, findings are inconsistent and data analyzing the effect of smoking on treatment effic...

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Main Authors: Ludwig Schlemm, Anna Kufner, Florent Boutitie, Alexander Heinrich Nave, Christian Gerloff, Götz Thomalla, Claus Z. Simonsen, Ian Ford, Robin Lemmens, Keith W. Muir, Norbert Nighoghossian, Salvador Pedraza, Martin Ebinger, Matthias Endres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
ischemic stroke
thrombolysis (tPA)
acute therapy
smoking
treatment outcome and efficacy
cerebrovascular diseases
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.01239/full

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