Does telephone follow-up improve blood pressure after minor stroke or TIA?
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Does telephone follow-up improve blood pressure after minor stroke or TIA?
BACKGROUND hypertension is a common risk factor for stroke/transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and there is good evidence that blood pressure (BP) control prevents recurrent stroke. We investigated whether telephone follow-up (TFU) improved risk factor management in hypertensive patients after stroke/TIA. METHODS we conducted a randomised controlled trial and assigned hypertensive patients withi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afq085