Wellcome Trust-HRB

May 13, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Catriona Reddin |Wellcome Trust-HRB |Robert Murphy |Graeme J. Hankey

INTRODUCTION Blood pressure (BP) management in acute stroke has been an intensive area of interventional research; randomized controlled trials have focused on lowering elevated BP, or increasing BP in patients where hypoperfusion is suspected [1-7]. Whilst lowering BP confers a modest benefit in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), there is no evidence to support BP lowering in acute ischaemic stroke, based on large randomized controlled trials [1, 8-10].