ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Correlation of microembolism risk factors with age in the ischemic stroke recovery period

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Federal Center of Brain Research and Neurotechnologies of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Ekaterina Vladimirovna Orlova
Ostrovityanova, 1/10, k. А8-008, Moscow, 117513, Russia; moc.liamg@kylhs.aniretake

About paper

Funding: State Assignment No. 388-00083-22-00 of 30.12.2021, research project No. 122022100113-7 of 21 February 2022

Author contribution: Orlova EV — literature review, manuscript writing, working with the database, analysis of the results; Berdalin AB — working with the dataset, statistical processing of the results, part in writing the results and the discussion; Lelyuk VG — study planning and management, search for sources of funding, manuscript editing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal Center of Brain and Neurotechnologies of FMBA of Russia (protocol № 01/24-10-22 of 24 October 2022); the informed consent was submitted by all study participants.

Received: 2022-10-28 Accepted: 2022-11-29 Published online: 2022-12-12
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