MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — After one year of intensive medical management, certain risk factors associated with stroke are reduced among Black adults, according to a study published online Aug. 3 in Stroke.
Eyad Almallouhi, M.D., from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial involving patients with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis to examine whether aggressive medical management ameliorates disparities in risk factor control between Black and non-Black patients (104 and 347, respectively). Risk factor frequency at study entry and mean levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein, hemoglobin A1c, and exercise level at baseline and one-year of follow-up were compared between Black and non-Black patients.