Abstract
Almost 6 million people worldwide will die from a stroke in 2006. 1 Lopez AD Mathers CD Ezzati M Jamison DT Murray CJ Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet. 2006; 367: 1747-1757 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (4075) Google Scholar The burden of stroke is expected to increase in the future because of the rapid rise in the elderly population. The Lancet Neurology and The Lancet are issuing a joint call for papers on stroke. Papers that are accepted for publication will appear in one of the special issues of the two journals that will be published to coincide with the International Stroke Conference that will be held in San Francisco on Feb 7–9, 2007. The deadline for submission is Nov 17, which is the same date as the submission deadline for the conference's Ongoing Clinical Trials and Late-Breaking Science Abstracts.
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