Deans' stroke musings: Inter-arm blood pressure difference in post-stroke patients with hemiparesis

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Inter-arm blood pressure difference in post-stroke patients with hemiparesis

How is anything here helpful to getting survivors recovered? You do know that the whole fucking point of stroke research is survivor recovery?

Inter-arm blood pressure difference in post-stroke patients with hemiparesis

Hai-ping PENG

Liang TAO

Min TANG

Hai Su¹

ORCID

¹the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2441705/v1

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The aim of this study was to investigate that inter-arm blood pressure (BP) difference (IAD) in post-stroke patients with hemiparesis. This study enrolled 420 post-stroke patients with hemiparesis. Simultaneous bilateral arm BP was measured with two automatic BP devices, and the systolic BP difference ≥ 10 mm Hg was recorded as sIAD. The arm with higher systolic BP (SBP) was assigned as the reference arm. Our results showed that the prevalence of sIAD was 18.1% in the total group. The paretic arms had similar mean SBP levels (133.6 ± 18.4 vs 133.8 ± 18.4 mm Hg, NS) and DBP (77.8 ± 11.5 vs 77.2 ± 10.9 mm Hg, NS) as compared with the unaffected arms. The detection rate of hypertension on the SBP values of the reference arm was higher than that on the unaffected arm (41.8% vs 36.3). In is convoluted that the prevalence of sIAD ≥ 10 mmH was 18.1% and that for dIAD ≥ 10 mmH was 9% in the post-stroke patients with hemiparesis, thus, bilateral arm BP measurement is encouraged for evaluating IAD and decreasing the miss diagnosis of hypertension.