“…The authors conclude that risks of recurrent vascular events are high in young patients after ischaemic strokes or TIAs. They suggest also that these risks might be reduced by a better adherence of patients to modern strategies of secondary prevention [5]. In this study, patients were recruited up to 55 years, meaning that they could be 65 years old at the end of the follow-up, an age where atrial fibrillation becomes a frequent cause of cerebral ischaemia.…”