U-shaped relationship between mortality and admission blood pressure in patients with acute stroke

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-265

  Vemmos, K N ^a,c   Tsivgoulis, G ^b   Spengos, K ^b   Zakopoulos, N ^a   Synetos, A ^a   Manios, E ^a   Konstantopoulou, P ^a   Mavrikakis, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Blood pressure; Intra cerebral haemorrhage; Ischaemic stroke; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN EDEMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYSTOLE;

EID: 1242317781     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2003.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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