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Background Patients with stroke due to spontaneous (non-traumatic) intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) are at risk of recurrent ICH, ischaemic stroke, and other serious vascular events. We aimed to analyse these risks in population-based studies and compare them with the risks in RESTART, which assessed antiplatelet therapy after ICH.Methods We pooled individual patient data from two prospective, population-based inception cohort studies of all patients with an incident firs-in-a-lifetime