Figure 1.

Annual Risk of Stroke With BMT Patients During Follow-up in ECST

BMT, best medical therapy; ECST, European Carotid Surgery Trial.

Note: Only strokes lasting > 7 days were recorded in ECST.

Reprinted from The Lancet, ECST, Randomized trial of endarterectomy for recently symptomatic carotid stenosis: final results of the MRC European Carotid Surgery Trial (ECST), 1998;351:1372-1373. Copyright with permission from Elsevier.

*On May 1, 2015, Stoke was changed to Stroke.