Background: Although capacities for intensive monitoring of patients with stroke are still limited, patients at risk for early neurologic worsening are poorly defined.Objective: To identify patients at risk for neurologic worsening.

While the in-hospital risk of stroke was low, long-term stroke rates in our well-defined multicenter hospital-based cohort were comparable to a large randomized trial. In patients with a well-established diagnosis of TIA, only age and previous cerebrovascular events seem to constitute independent predictors for stroke during long-term follow-up.

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