Hypertension and intracerebral hemorrhage recurrence among white, black, and Hispanic individuals

Axana Rodriguez-Torres1, Meredith Murphy1, Christina Kourkoulis1

  • 1From the University of California Irvine School of Medicine (A.R.-T.); Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Program (A.R.-T., M.M., C. Kourkoulis, K.S., A.M.A., M.E.G., S.M.G., A.V., C.D.A., J.R., A.B.), and Department of Neurology (A.R.-T., M.M., C. Kourkoulis, M.E.G., S.M.G., A.V., C.D.A., J.R., A.B.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine (C.J.M., S.Y.K., M. Flaherty, D.W.), University of Cincinnati, OH; Department of Neurology (J.V.B.), University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville; Department of Neurology (M.L.J.), Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (L.B.), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Department of Neurology (G.Y.S.), Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Neurology (G.P.), University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore; Department of Neurology (A.K.B.), Columbia University, New York, NY; Department of Neurology (D.M.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Neurology (K.N.S.), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Neurology (C. Kidwell), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson; Department of Neurology (S.K.), University of Miami Health System, FL; Department of Neurology (M. Frankel), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; Department of Biostatistical Sciences (C.D.L.), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; and Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation (F.D.T.), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

Neurology
|June 8, 2018
PubMed

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