Association between frontal lobe lesions and time course of depression in patients with first-ever ischemic stroke (persistent/recurrent depression versus no/transient depression).

<p>*Adjusted for gender, NIHSS score and MMSE score at 14±2 days, chronic comorbidities, ischemic lesions on periventricular white matter or temporal lobe, TOAST classification, antidepressants treatment and stroke recurrence within a year.</p><p>OR, odds ratio; CI, confidential interval.