Effects of aspirin plus extended-release dipyridamole versus clopidogrel and telmisartan on disability and cognitive function after recurrent stroke in patients with ischaemic stroke in the Prevention Regimen for Effectively Avoiding Second Strokes (PRoFESS) trial: a double-blind, active and placebo-controlled study.

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Published in Lancet Neurol on August 29, 2008

Authors

Hans-Christoph Diener1, Ralph L Sacco, Salim Yusuf, Daniel Cotton, Stephanie Ounpuu, William A Lawton, Yuko Palesch, Reneé H Martin, Gregory W Albers, Philip Bath, Natan Bornstein, Bernard P L Chan, Sien-Tsong Chen, Luis Cunha, Björn Dahlöf, Jacques De Keyser, Geoffrey A Donnan, Conrado Estol, Philip Gorelick, Vivian Gu, Karin Hermansson, Lutz Hilbrich, Markku Kaste, Chuanzhen Lu, Thomas Machnig, Prem Pais, Robin Roberts, Veronika Skvortsova, Philip Teal, Danilo Toni, Cam VanderMaelen, Thor Voigt, Michael Weber, Byung-Woo Yoon, Prevention Regimen for Effectively Avoiding Second Strokes (PRoFESS) study group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. h.diener@uni-essen.de

Associated clinical trials:

PRoFESS - Prevention Regimen For Effectively Avoiding Second Strokes | NCT00153062

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