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Stroke care advances fail to establish a globally accepted universal definition of stroke.
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Hippocrates could never have imagined the progress made in stroke care since this statement, yet the world is still unable to agree on a universal definition. This review charts the evolution of the definition of stroke and highlights current problems.
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Coupland et al. (2017) studied this question. A universal definition of stroke remains unestablished globally despite significant historical advancements in stroke care.
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