Outcome after acute ischemic stroke is linked to sex-specific lesion patterns

Anna K. Bonkhoff; Markus D. Schirmer; Martin Bretzner; Sungmin Hong; Robert W. Regenhardt; Mikael Brudfors; Kathleen L. Donahue; Marco J. Nardin; Adrian V. Dalca; Anne-Katrin Giese; Mark R. Etherton; Brandon L. Hancock; Steven J. T. Mocking; Elissa C. McIntosh; John Attia; Oscar R. Benavente; Stephen Bevan; John W. Cole; Amanda Donatti; Christoph J. Griessenauer; Laura Heitsch; Lukas Holmegaard; Katarina Jood; Jordi Jimenez-Conde; Steven J. Kittner; Robin Lemmens; Christopher R. Levi; Caitrin W. McDonough; James F. Meschia; Chia-Ling Phuah; Arndt Rolfs; Stefan Ropele; Jonathan Rosand; Jaume Roquer; Tatjana Rundek; Ralph L. Sacco; Reinhold Schmidt; Pankaj Sharma; Agnieszka Slowik; Martin Söderholm; Alessandro Sousa; Tara M. Stanne; Daniel Strbian; Turgut Tatlisumak; Vincent Thijs; Achala Vagal; Johan Wasselius; Daniel Woo; Ramin Zand; Patrick F. McArdle; Bradford B. Worrall; Christina Jern; Arne G. Lindgren; Jane Maguire; Danilo Bzdok; Ona Wu; Natalia S. Rost

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Outcome after acute ischemic stroke is linked to sex-specific lesion patterns

Anna K. Bonkhoff, Markus D. Schirmer, Martin Bretzner, Sungmin Hong, Robert W. Regenhardt, Mikael Brudfors, Kathleen L. Donahue, Marco J. Nardin, Adrian V. Dalca, Anne-Katrin Giese, Mark R. Etherton, Brandon L. Hancock, Steven J. T. Mocking, Elissa C. McIntosh, John Attia, Oscar R. Benavente, Stephen Bevan, John W. Cole, Amanda Donatti, Christoph J. GriessenauerLaura Heitsch, Lukas Holmegaard, Katarina Jood, Jordi Jimenez-Conde, Steven J. Kittner, Robin Lemmens, Christopher R. Levi, Caitrin W. McDonough, James F. Meschia, Chia-Ling Phuah, Arndt Rolfs, Stefan Ropele, Jonathan Rosand, Jaume Roquer, Tatjana Rundek, Ralph L. Sacco, Reinhold Schmidt, Pankaj Sharma, Agnieszka Slowik, Martin Söderholm, Alessandro Sousa, Tara M. Stanne, Daniel Strbian, Turgut Tatlisumak, Vincent Thijs, Achala Vagal, Johan Wasselius, Daniel Woo, Ramin Zand, Patrick F. McArdle, Bradford B. Worrall, Christina Jern, Arne G. Lindgren, Jane Maguire, Danilo Bzdok, Ona Wu, Natalia S. Rost

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Acute ischemic stroke affects men and women differently. In particular, women are often reported to experience higher acute stroke severity than men. We derived a low-dimensional representation of anatomical stroke lesions and designed a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework tailored to estimate possible sex differences in lesion patterns linked to acute stroke severity (National Institute of Health Stroke Scale). This framework was developed in 555 patients (38% female). Findings were validated in an independent cohort (n = 503, 41% female). Here, we show brain lesions in regions subserving motor and language functions help explain stroke severity in both men and women, however more widespread lesion patterns are relevant in female patients. Higher stroke severity in women, but not men, is associated with left hemisphere lesions in the vicinity of the posterior circulation. Our results suggest there are sex-specific functional cerebral asymmetries that may be important for future investigations of sex-stratified approaches to management of acute ischemic stroke.

Original language	English
Article number	3289
Number of pages	14
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23492-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

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Bonkhoff, A. K., Schirmer, M. D., Bretzner, M., Hong, S., Regenhardt, R. W., Brudfors, M., Donahue, K. L., Nardin, M. J., Dalca, A. V., Giese, A.-K., Etherton, M. R., Hancock, B. L., Mocking, S. J. T., McIntosh, E. C., Attia, J., Benavente, O. R., Bevan, S., Cole, J. W., Donatti, A., ... Rost, N. S. (2021). Outcome after acute ischemic stroke is linked to sex-specific lesion patterns. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 3289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23492-3

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Outcome after acute ischemic stroke is linked to sex-specific lesion patterns

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