Smoking cessation and outcome after ischemic stroke or TIA
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- Received March 27, 2017
- Accepted in final form July 14, 2017
- First Published September 8, 2017.
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Author Disclosures
- Katherine A. Epstein, MA,
- Catherine M. Viscoli, PhD,
- J. David Spence, MD,
- Lawrence H. Young, MD,
- Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD,
- Mark Gorman, MD,
- Brett Gerstenhaber, MD,
- Peter D. Guarino, PhD,
- Anand Dixit, MD,
- Karen L. Furie, MD,
- Walter N. Kernan, MD;
- For the IRIS Trial Investigators
- Katherine A. Epstein, MA,
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- Catherine M. Viscoli, PhD,
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- J. David Spence, MD,
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I was Assistant Editor of Stroke from 2000 to 2010, and am a member of the editorial board of Stroke from 2010-2016; a member of the editoral board of Hypertension from 2002-2016 of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology since ∼ 1995. I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology since 2015, and of Stroke and Vascular Neurology since 2016.
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(1)How to prevent your stroke. Vanderbilt University Press 2006 (2) Stroke Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation. McGraw-Hill Medical, New York, 2012
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I have an interest in www.vascularis.com
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I have received grants from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada (Ontario) and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research
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Vascularis Inc. 2010-present
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- Lawrence H. Young, MD,
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Patent pending related to MIF family peptides in the treatment of myocardial infarction.
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Research support to Yale University from (1) Merck (2) Novartis, (3) Mifcor.
Research support from (1) the NHLBI R01HL120622, PI, 2015-2019
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(1) MIF family peptides in the treatment of myocardial infarction, Yale University
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- Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD,
Merck, Sanofi/Lexicon, Novo-Nordisk, Intarcia, Janssen, Poxel, vTv Therapeutics, Eisai, Alere
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Diabetes Channel, Practice Update
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Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca
NIH
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- Mark Gorman, MD,
I am on several DMCs for commercial entities: Symetis SA (Data Monitoring Committee for several (all that they have done) transapical and transfemoral valve studies); LivaNova (Clinical Event Committee for PERSIST-AVR trial); Harpoon Medical (Data Monitoring Committee for all current device-related studies).
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- Brett Gerstenhaber, MD,
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(1) Boehringer Ingelheim, speaker's fee
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(1) Boehringer Ingelheim
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- Peter D. Guarino, PhD,
(1) NIAMS DSMB (2) DoD / VA Steering Committee
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(1)Journal of Cardiac Failure, Consulting Editor, 2001 - 2009.
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(1) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, SCHARP Director, 2015 to present (2) Friends Research Institute, Inc., Biostatistician, 2001 - 2016
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(1) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (2) Friends Research Institute, Inc.
(1) Department of Veterans Affairs, Cooperative Studies Program, Biostatistician 2001 - 2015
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- Anand Dixit, MD,
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- Karen L. Furie, MD,
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sTROKE, vICE eDITOR 20 2011-PRESENT jOURNAL OF nEUROLOGY, nEURO SURGERY, PSYCHIATRY, dEPUTY eDITOR 2012-PRESENT
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uPtOdATE 2008-PRESENT
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ninds, 2015-PRESENT
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- Walter N. Kernan, MD;
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Yale receives research funding from NINDS and drug from Takeda Pharmaceuticals to support IRIS trial and support storage of blood in IRIS.
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- For the IRIS Trial Investigators
- From the Yale School of Medicine (K.A.E., C.M.V., L.H.Y., S.E.I., B.G., W.N.K.), New Haven, CT; University of Western Ontario (J.D.S.), London, Canada; Maine Medical Center (M.G.), Portland; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (P.D.G.), Seattle, WA; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (A.D.), Newcastle, UK; and Alpert Medical School of Brown University (K.L.F.), Providence, RI.
- Correspondence to Dr. Kernan: walter.kernan{at}yale.edu
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