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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2014 Dec 30;46(2):465–470. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007566

Table 2.

1-Year Follow-Up mean blood pressure, clinic visits and number of medications among ischemic stroke patients stratified by discharge blood pressure.

Clinical Measures in the Year post-stroke Blood pressure at hospital Discharge Full cohort N=3153
<140 mmHg N=1973 (62.6%) 141-160 mmHg N=819 (26%) > 160 mmHg N=361 (11.4%) P value
Systolic Blood Pressure, mmHg mean (SD) 126.1 (11.9) 136.8 (11.0) 146.5 (13.0) <0.001
Diastolic Blood Pressure, mmHg mean (SD) 72.9 (9.9) 74.1 (9.9) 75.6 (10.7) <0.001
Number of Outpatient Clinic visits* Mean (SD) 4.6 (4.1) 4.7 (3.8) 4.9 (3.6) 0.1850
Antihypertensive Drugs at Discharge, median (IQR) 2 (1, 3) 2 (1, 3) 2 (2, 4) <0.001
Patients with at least one elevated blood pressure opportunity post discharge N (%) 590/1973 (30%) 381/819 (46.5%) 226/361 (62.6%) <0.001
*

Eligible clinic visits include: general internal medicine; primary care/medicine; women's health; mental health primary care; geriatrics; hypertension; cardiology; anticoagulation; diabetes, endocrine, or metabolism; infectious disease; renal/nephrology; pulmonary, or chest; or neurology.