“…After removing duplicate and not relevant records, 90 full-text articles and one congress abstract were assessed for eligibility. Reasoned exclusions (16 studies) [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] rendered 75 studies included in the qualitative synthesis, and further exclusions (18 studies) 36,43,44,46,56,61,64,65,69,76,78,83,92,93,98,103,104,107 resulted in 57 studies subjected to meta-analysis of seven stroke outcomes. 34,35,37-42,45,47-55,57-60,62,63,66-68, 70-75,77,79-82,84-91,94-97,99-102,105,106,108…”