Effect of Intensive Versus Standard Blood Pressure Control on Stroke Subtypes

Hypertension. 2021 Apr;77(4):1391-1398. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16027. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

¹ From the Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (C.B.W.).
² Department of Neurology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (A.P.A.).
³ Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (A.L.).
⁴ Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (W.T.A., J.J.W.).
⁵ Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (H.A.).
⁶ Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (J.T.B.).
⁷ Department of Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA (J.C.).
⁸ Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL (J.F.M.).
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia (S.P.).
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC (V.P.).
¹¹ Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA (A.R.).
¹² Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (M.S.).
¹³ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI (J.Y.).
¹⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (S.O.).

Abstract

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Keywords: atherosclerosis; blood pressure; hemorrhagic stroke; hypertension; ischemic stroke.