Health and Fitness

Standard Blood Pressure Target is Sufficient for Treating Some Strokes

NIH-funded study helps answer decades old question about emergency blood pressure management options.

Image of a post-stroke brain scan Brain scan showing damage caused by bleeding during a hemorrhagic stroke. Adnan I Qureshi, M.D., University of Minnesota

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2016.  An international stroke study found that standard and intensive blood pressure treatments were equally effective in the emergency treatment of acute intracerebral hemorrhage, a type of stroke caused by bleeding into the brain. Patients whose systolic blood pressure was reduced…

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