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Infarction

Data from Kyushu University advance knowledge in infarction

Published in Blood Weekly, January 28th, 2010

"Clinical uncertainty remains whether the blood pressure classification and risk stratifications recommended by the Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (JSH 2009) are useful in predicting the risks of stroke and its subtypes in the general Japanese population. A total of 1621 stroke-free residents of a Japanese community aged at least 40 years were followed up for 32 years," scientists writing in the Journal of Hypertension report.

"were total and cause-specific stroke (lacunar infarction, atherothrombotic infarction, cardioembolic infarction, cerebral haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage). Incidence was calculated...

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