History2001United Stateshigh confidence

In 2001, CDC received its first funding from Congress for stroke and established the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry.

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Confirmed directly by CDC's own historical documentation and independently corroborated by a peer-reviewed AHA journal article, Federal Register notice, MMWR reports, and HHS grants database. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | kind=empirical eligibility=high]

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