Open AccessPROGRESS: Prevention of Recurrent Stroke
Author(s) -
Arima Hisatomi,
Chalmers John
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2011.00530.x
Subject(s) - medicine , perindopril , stroke (engine) , atrial fibrillation , blood pressure , diabetes mellitus , body mass index , kidney disease , cardiology , randomized controlled trial , placebo , physical therapy , disease , endocrinology , alternative medicine , mechanical engineering , pathology , engineering
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) . 2011;13;693–702. ©2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The Perindopril Protection Against Recurrent Stroke Study (PROGRESS) was a randomized placebo‐controlled trial which clearly demonstrated that perindopril‐based blood pressure (BP)–lowering treatment is one of the most effective and generalizable strategies for secondary prevention of stroke. Beneficial effects of BP lowering were observed on recurrent stroke, other cardiovascular events, disability, dependency, and cognitive function across a variety of subgroups defined by age, sex, geographical region, body mass index, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease, and baseline BP levels. Once patients with stroke have stabilized, all patients should receive BP‐lowering therapy irrespective of their BP levels. On the basis of recommendations from current international guidelines, BP should be lowered to <140/90 mm Hg in all patients with cerebrovascular disease and to <130/80 mm Hg if therapy is well tolerated.