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Electrocardiographic left atrial abnormalities and risk of incident stroke in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy
Conclusion: Abnormal PTFV1, a marker of left atrial abnormality, was strongly associated with incident stroke in hypertensive patients, independent of in-treatment SBP and other predictors of incident stroke. This association, in the absence of detectable atrial fibrillation, suggests that an underlying atrial cardiopathy may cause left atrial thrombus formation and a subsequent stroke without intervening clinically recognized atrial fibrillation.
Source: Journal of Hypertension - August 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Tags: ORIGINAL PAPERS: Heart Source Type: research

Beta-blockers for preventing stroke recurrence.
CONCLUSIONS: To date, no available evidence supports the routine use of beta-blockers for secondary prevention after stroke or TIA. More studies with larger samples are needed. PMID: 25317988 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - October 15, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: De Lima LG, Saconato H, Atallah AN, da Silva EM Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research