Benign neoplasm of the heart increases the risk of first ischemic stroke: a population-based cohort study

International Journal of Stroke: 23 JUL 2014

Conflict of interest: The individual and collective authors have no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to declare.

Funding: This work was supported by the study projects DMR-103-018 and DMR-102-023 at our hospital, the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Clinical Trial and Research Center of Excellence (MOHW103-TDU-B-212-113002), Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Cancer Research Center for Excellence (MOHW103-TD-B-111-03), and International Research-Intensive Centers of Excellence in Taiwan (NSC101-2911-I-002-303), China Medical University Hospital, Academia Sinica Taiwan Biobank, Stroke Biosignature Project (BM103010096), NRPB Stroke Clinical Trial Consortium (MOST 103-2325-B-039-006-), Tseng-Lien Lin Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan Brain Disease Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, and Katsuzo and Kiyo Aoshima Memorial Funds, Japan. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. No additional external funding was received for this study. Read More