Adverse Effect of Nighttime Blood Pressure on the Outcome of Lacunar Infarct Patients | Zendy

Yasumasa Yamamoto | Zendy; Ichiro Akiguchi | Zendy; Kaiyo Oiwa | Zendy; Masamichi Hayashi | Zendy; Jun Kimura | Zendy

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Adverse Effect of Nighttime Blood Pressure on the Outcome of Lacunar Infarct Patients

Author(s) -

Yasumasa Yamamoto,

Ichiro Akiguchi,

Kaiyo Oiwa,

Masamichi Hayashi,

Jun Kimura

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/01.str.29.3.570

Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , ambulatory blood pressure , ambulatory , lacunar infarction , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , cardiology , diastole , stroke (engine) , magnetic resonance imaging , infarction , myocardial infarction , radiology , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , engineering

Antihypertensive therapy has dramatically reduced the incidence of stroke recurrence; however, recent studies have suggested that the excessive lowering of blood pressure (BP) could cause ischemic cerebral lesions. We conducted a prospective study using MRI and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to elucidate the appropriate BP control level for the prevention of silent and symptomatic cerebral infarction.

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