Epidemiologic assessment of the role of blood pressure in stroke

Article Abstract:

The publication in 1970 of the Framingham study linking elevated blood pressure to stroke was a landmark event. During the 1960s evidence grew that even persons with moderate hypertension were at risk for stroke and heart disease. The Framingham study, which followed 5,209 healthy adults aged 30 to 62 years for 14 years, provided the definitive study. It confirmed growing suspicions by showing that the risk of stroke increased directly as blood pressure increased. It also showed that the systolic, or upper value, was as important or more important than the diastolic, or lower value.

Hypertension, Complications and side effects, Risk factors, Stroke (Disease), Stroke

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Transient neurological attack: a useful concept?

Article Abstract:

The importance of proper identification and diagnosis of symptoms to determine the difference between a transient ischemic stroke and a transient ischemic attack (TIA) are discussed.

United States, Diagnosis, Genetic aspects, Cerebral ischemia, Transient ischemic attack

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