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Article: Blood Pressure Drop Cuts Second Stroke Risk 28%: 'This is not treatment of hypertension; it's blood pressure reduction....'. (Normotension Not Good Enough).
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- November 15, 2001
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STOCKHOLM -- Blood pressure reduction cut the risk of a second stroke by 28% over a 4-year period in a trial that enrolled more than 6,000 patients.
Regardless of their starting blood pressures, a blood pressure decrease was associated with similar reductions in stroke risk in normotensive and hypertensive patients with a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). "This is not treatment of hypertension; it's blood pressure reduction in patients with stroke," said John Chalmers, the study's principal investigator.
The benefit for normotensive patients was especially important since two-thirds to three-quarters of stroke patients and TIA ...