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High blood pressure may increase risk of strokes, finds study

A Michigan Medicine study found that high systolic blood pressure (the top number on the blood pressure reading) increases the risk of the two most common types of strokes over time. The study looked at the average systolic blood pressure years before the first stroke in over 40,000 adults who had no history of stroke. Researchers covered three types of stroke: ischemic, intracerebral haemorrhage, and subarachnoid haemorrhage.