VWF and stroke disorder: No sex differences were found for glutamate (Meng et al., 2014) and phospholipase A2 (PLA2) (Elkind et al., 2006) within 72h after stroke, thromboxane 2 (TXA2), prostaglandin I2 (PGI2), adenosine diphosphate (ADP) within 2 weeks after stroke (Lee et al., 1987), and vWF (Kain et al., 2001) 3 months after stroke.