Implications of Recent Clinical Trials and Hypertension Guidelines on Stroke and Future Cerebrovascular Research

Daniel T Lackland1, Robert M Carey2, Adriana B Conforto2

  • 1From the Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (D.T.L.); Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville (R.M.C.); Department of Neurology, Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.B.C.); Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Mount Sinai Heart and the Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (C.R.); James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY (C.R.); Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (P.K.W.); and Division of Translational Science & Molecular Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and Mercy Health Hauenstein Neurosciences, Grand Rapids (P.B.G.). lackland@musc.edu.

Stroke
|February 23, 2018
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