The graphs „Medical treatment‰ and „trial centres‰ show the results of the ACST/ACAS trials (expressed as constant hazards of stroke or death from the trials and age dependent hazards of all other cause mortality from the Flemish male life table at age 70 in the year 2000). 18 Intervention starts with a short period of high (peri-procedural) mortality, but the lower post-procedural hazard of death will overtake the higher hazard of medical treatment.
The graphs „Medical treatment‰ and „trial centres‰ show the results of the ACST/ACAS trials (expressed as constant hazards of stroke or death from the trials and age dependent hazards of all other cause mortality from the Flemish male life table at age 70 in the year 2000).[18] Intervention starts with a short period of high (peri-procedural) mortality, but the lower post-procedural hazard of death will overtake the higher hazard of medical treatment.