Effect of reducing blood pressure with medications immediately following ischemic stroke

Jiang He, M.D., Ph.D., of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, and colleagues examined whether moderate lowering of blood pressure within the first 48 hours after the onset of an acute ischemic stroke would reduce death and major disability at 14 days or hospital discharge.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/tjn...