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Migrant Stroke Patients Had 1.90x Higher Late-Arrival Odds

Photoreal illustration of a stroke patient in an emergency room with overlay of treatment-eligibility imagery, conveying disparities in acute-stroke care.

A 2026 Dutch stroke-center cohort found the opposite of the damaged draft’s claim: patients with a migration background were more likely to reach the hospital outside the therapeutic window for acute reperfusion therapy, and they had sharply lower odds of receiving endovascular thrombectomy.1 Research Highlights Late arrival was the clearest disparity: 53.2% of migrant-background patients …

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