The plateau in stroke recurrence rates over the last decade indicates that implementation of effective secondary preventive strategies remains suboptimal.
The rate of recurrence reduced until mid-2000s but has not changed over the last decade. The majority of cardioembolic or hemorrhagic strokes that have a recurrence are stroke of the same type indicating that the implementation of effective preventive strategies is still suboptimal in these stroke subtypes.
Flach et al. (2020) studied this question.