Author information:
(1)Stroke Trials Unit, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of 
Nottingham, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK; Stroke, Nottingham University 
Hospitals NHS Trust, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: 
nikola.sprigg@nottingham.ac.uk.
(2)Stroke Trials Unit, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of 
Nottingham, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK.
(3)Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
(4)Department of Neurology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
(5)The First University Clinic of Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, 
Georgia.
(6)Department of Neurology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, University of 
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
(7)Neurology Unit, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale di Mantova, Mantua, 
Italy.
(8)Stroke Service, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Tallaght, Ireland.
(9)2nd Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, 
Poland.
(10)Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of 
Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham, UK; NIHR Nottingham 
Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, UK.
(11)Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical 
Centre, Nottingham, UK.
(12)UGC de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, 
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones 
Científicas, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
(13)Vascular Medicine, Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, 
University of Nottingham, Royal Derby Hospital Centre, Derby, UK.
(14)Stroke Trials Unit, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of 
Nottingham, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK; Stroke, Nottingham University 
Hospitals NHS Trust, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK.
(15)Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, 
Stockholm, Sweden.
(16)Stroke Trials Unit, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of 
Nottingham, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK; Stroke, Nottingham University 
Hospitals NHS Trust, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, UK; Department of 
Medicine, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
(17)Department of Neurology, Selcuk University Medical Faculty, Konya, Turkey.
(18)Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical 
Medicine, London, UK.
(19)Clinical Trials Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, 
UK.
(20)Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research 
Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
(21)Stroke Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Keele University, 
Staffordshire, UK.
(22)Stroke Center, Neurology and Department of Clinical Research, University 
Hospital, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
(23)Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National University of 
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
(24)Stroke Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for 
Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London, London, UK.
(25)School of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, 
UK.