Xia Wang, Jie Yang, Tom J Moullaali, Else Charlotte Sandset, Lisa J Woodhouse, Zhe Kang Law, Hisatomi Arima, Kenneth S Butcher, Candice Delcourt, Leon Edwards, Salil Gupta, Wen Jiang, Sebastian Koch, John Potter, Adnan I Qureshi, Thompson G Robinson, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Jeffrey L Saver, Nikola Sprigg, Joanna Wardlaw, Craig S Anderson, Yuki Sakamoto, Philip M Bath, John Chalmers
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether an earlier time to achieving and maintaining systolic blood pressure (SBP) at 120 to 140 mm Hg is associated with favorable outcomes in a cohort of patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS: We pooled individual patient data from randomized controlled trials registered in the Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke Collaboration. Time was defined as time form symptom onset plus the time (hour) to first achieve and subsequently maintain SBP at 120 to 140 mm Hg over 24 hours...
April 2024: Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation