Support programme for secondary prevention of stroke: inspiration to continue?

[...]although higher proportions of patients in the support programme group reached the treatment targets, the absolute rates were still suboptimal, with some of the risk factors being less well controlled than in the TIA registry, a study in a real-world setting.5 There was also no further improvement in the proportion of patients reaching treatment targets between 1 year and 3 years, despite continued effort. [...]only half of the patients in the support programme group attended all scheduled support programme appointments. [...]the diverging trend for recurrent vascular events and for death at 3 years suggests that the effect of the support programme might take longer to become apparent.