string: ‚Ä¶and LL in the entire sample and in three stroke subtypes, confirming the results of several other investigations performed on ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke or undifferentiated samples (Duncan et al., 1994; Desrosiers et al., 2003; Higgins et al., 2005; Verheyden et al., 2008; Paci et al., 2012).