Figure 2.

Timeline for the project. (a) Timeline for the stroke patients and the healthy controls. For the stroke patients, the time intervals between stroke onset and hospitalization, and between hospitalization and blood collection and testing are indicated. For the healthy controls, blood sampling and testing were performed on the same day, about 4 years after inclusion of the first stroke patient. (b) Timeline for the plasma samples from stroke patients and healthy controls. The samples were kept at room temperature before centrifugation at +4 °C, and again during pipetting (black). The plasma samples where then kept at -80 °C (grey). During transportation from the biobank to the local lab, the samples were kept on dry ice (dark grey). The samples were then kept at -80 °C (grey) until analysis. #median time; ’minutes. Figure partly created with www.BioRender.com.