A World Health Organization report indicates that simple and cheap medications and care are not being used and that most patients receiving treatment do not have controlled blood pressure.
An artificial intelligence tool outperformed human call handlers in recognizing patients with stroke from calls to the emergency services in a new study.
In patients with acute ischemic stroke who have not received thrombolysis or thrombectomy, early versus late antihypertensive treatment did not reduce the likelihood of death and major disability.
Orthostatic hypertension blood pressure assessment provides prognostic information on top of traditional risk factors and ambulatory blood pressure, the study showed.