Financial & competing interests disclosure
Kennedy R Lees is Associate Director of the NIHR Stroke Research Network, chaired the independent data monitoring committee for the ECASS-III trial, chairs the VISTA collaboration and serves on the Steering Committee for the SITS collaboration. He has received fees and expenses from Boehringer Ingelheim for committee work and lectures. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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