NPPB and Stroke: In addition, age, gender, BMI, history ofsmoking, history of alcohol, hypertension, stroke, atrial fibrillation, heartfailure, history of myocardial infarction, history of PCI, HDL-C, totalcholesterol, creatinine, urea nitrogen, albumin, CRP, CK-MB, cardiac troponin T,and NT-proBNP were not statistically different between the two groups (p > 0.05).