This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/ANE.13217 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved DR. SIIM SCHNEIDER (Orcid ID : 0000-0003-3463-0097) Article type : Original Article Mortality in young adult patients with acute ischaemic stroke Short title: Mortality in young patients with ischaemic stroke Siim Schneider, 1,2 Riina Vibo, 2 Nele Taba, 3 Janika Kõrv 2 1 Neurology Centre, North Estonia Medical Centre, Sütiste tee 19, Tallinn 13419, Estonia 2 Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Puusepa 8, Tartu 50406, Estonia 3 Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, Tartu 51010, Estonia Corresponding author: Siim Schneider, MD, Neurology Centre, North Estonia Medical Centre, Sütiste tee 19, Tallinn 13419, Estonia. E-mail: siim.schneider@perh.ee; Phone +37255674708; Fax +3726172149 Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Editage for English language editing. Sources of funding: The study was supported by the Estonian Institutional Research Grant IUT2- 4 and by the European Union through the European Regional Development fund. Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Accepted Article