CRP and Stroke: Among these, 31 studies were focused on all IS subtypes, of which 3 studies looked at PSD/PSCI [49,72,75], 21 looked at all-cause mortality [25,26,28,31,36,37,38,39,40,41,44,45,53,56,59,62,64,67,68,70,73], 12 looked at stroke recurrence [25,39,43,45,53,55,56,59,65,67,70,74], and 6 studies looked at CRP levels [26,29,57,61,65,74].