Stroke: After a stroke, blood pressure management, there are ethnic differences

Hypertension is a brain stroke a major risk factor is the third leading cause of death in American women, the fifth leading cause of death in men

Many randomized controlled trials have shown that lowering blood pressure (BP) can reduce the risk of stroke

The 2014 American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association guidelines recommend that for previously treated patients with neurological stability, they should resume antihypertensive medication after an acute stroke, for systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) Initiation of antihypertensive drug therapy for patients ≥90 mmHg

Compared with previous guidelines, the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/AHA blood pressure guidelines set a lower blood pressure target for adults with a history of stroke, namely SBP/DBP<130/80 mm Hg

Few studies have used the 2017 ACC/AHA blood pressure guidelines threshold to assess racial differences in blood pressure control among stroke survivors

For comparison, they also studied the ethnic differences in blood pressure control among participants who did not have a stroke

Among participants with a history of stroke, 50.

After multivariate adjustment, black participants were less likely to control blood pressure than white participants (the prevalence rate for participants with a history of stroke was 0.