Is it effective to initiate cilostazol-based dual antiplatelet therapy before achieving blood pressure control? Lessons from the CSPS study

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Koichi Yamamoto. Hypertens Res. 2024 Oct.

. 2024 Oct;47(10):2939-2941.

doi: 10.1038/s41440-024-01813-5. Epub 2024 Aug 8.

¹ The department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University graduate school of medicine, Osaka, Japan. kyamamoto@geriat.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.

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Keywords: Antiplatelet therapy; Hypertension; Stroke.

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Blood pressure during long-term cilostazol-based dual antiplatelet therapy after stroke: a post hoc analysis of the CSPS.com trial.
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