Blood Pressure-Attained Analysis of ATACH 2 Trial [Clinical Sciences]

Background and Purpose—We compared the rates of death or disability, defined by modified Rankin Scale score of 4 to 6, at 3 months in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage according to post-treatment systolic blood pressure (SBP)–attained status.Methods—We divided 1000 subjects with SBP ≥180 mm Hg who were randomized within 4.5 hours of symptom onset as follows: SBP

Source: Stroke - May 25, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Adnan I. Qureshi, Yuko Y. Palesch, Lydia D. Foster, William G. Barsan, Joshua N. Goldstein, Daniel F. Hanley, Chung Y. Hsu, Claudia S. Moy, Mushtaq H. Qureshi, Robert Silbergleit, Jose I. Suarez, Kazunori Toyoda, Haruko Yamamoto, on behalf of ATACH 2 Tri Tags: Statements and Guidelines, Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke, Intracranial Hemorrhage Original Contributions Source Type: research