Lowering Blood Pressure Improves Brain Hemorrhage Outcomes

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In an accompanying Comment, Dr. Mustapha Ezzeddine, of the University of Minnesota, wrote that the study provides the best evidence to date of the safety of this kind of treatment.

However, many questions remain: Do the results apply to other stroke patients? How early and how long should blood pressure be controlled? Do different drugs have different effects?

The follow-up studies "are likely to answer some of these questions and, more importantly, to detect any effect on outcomes," Ezzeddine wrote.

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