HGF and Stroke: A comparison between the two stroke groups (baseline CRP levels ≤ 5 mg/l and CRP levels > 5 mg/l) and sCeAD-nonAIS revealed differences after Bonferroni’s correction for multiple comparisons for the following cytokines and chemokines: HGF (p = 0.00004, η2 = 0.085), IL-4 (p = 0.0002, η2 = 0.071), and SDF-1α (p = 0.0003, η2 = 0.066), with moderate effect sizes (Fig. 1).