After admission, demographic characters (age, sex), and vascular risk factors (drinking, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, total cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein, fasting blood glucose, creatinine, and uric acid) were all recorded. Stroke severity was evaluated by a trained neurologist...
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