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BP and second stroke risk. (Primary Care - Stroke).
Blood pressure reduction cut the risk of a second stroke by 28% over 4 years in a trial that enrolled more than 6,000 patients.
Regardless of their starting blood pressures, the 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," John Chalmers, the study's principal investigator, said at the 23rd Congress of the European Society of Cardiology.
Two-thirds to three-quarters of stroke patients and TIA patients are normotensive, said Mr. Chalmers of the Institute for International Health at the University of Sydney (Australia).
The study design specified a fixed ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, BP and second stroke risk. (Primary Care - Stroke).