Rapid Blood-Pressure Lowering in Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

S. Anderson, Craig; Heeley, Emma; Huang, Yining; Wang, Ji‐Guang; Stapf, Christian; Delcourt, Candice; I. Lindley, Richard; Robinson, Thompson; M. Lavados, Pablo; Neal, Bruce; Hata, Jun; Arima, Hisatomi; Parsons, Mark; Li, Yuechun; Wang, Jinchao; Héritier, Stéphane; Li, Qiang; Woodward, Mark; John Simes, R.; M. Davis, Stephen; Chalmers, John

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1214609

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Rapid Blood-Pressure Lowering in Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • May 29, 2013

Authors:

Craig S. Anderson

Emma Heeley

Yining Huang

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Whether rapid lowering of elevated blood pressure would improve the outcome in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage is not known. METHODS: We randomly assigned 2839 patients who had had a spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage within the previous 6 hours and who had elevated systolic blo...

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