Timing for Restarting BP Meds After Ischemic Stroke

Elevated blood pressure (BP) is common in acute ischemic stroke, and many patients are already taking antihypertensive medications at presentation. While permissive hypertension is guideline-recommended after ischemic stroke, the timing for resumption of home BP medications is less well-established. In the previously published CATIS and CATIS-2 trials, researchers randomized a total of 9000 patients hospitalized with mild-to-moderate acute ischemic stroke to receive early or delayed antihypertensive treatment. Now, in this secondary analysis, researchers have compared outcomes among the 4500 participants who had been taking BP medications before admission. Patients receiving thrombolytic therapy or thrombectomy were excluded from the…