Hypertension in High Risk African Americans 2014
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2010-5_5
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Stroke and Hypertension in High-Risk African Americans

Abstract: Stroke is primarily an "end-organ" outcome of atherosclerotic and hypertensive diseases and embolic disease usually arising from the heart or aorta. The most common type of stroke is ischemic stroke, the result of cerebral vessel occlusion from the accumulation of arteriosclerotic plaque or thrombi that develop in remote blood vessels and migrate to the smaller cerebral arteries, resulting in the death of brain tissue. The less common type of stroke is hemorrhagic, due to bleeding from a ruptured vessel within… Show more

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