Results
stroke, hypertension, HT
INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, STROKE, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, DIABETES MELLITUS, REGRESSION, HYPERTENSION
Of 1,117 assessed patients with AIS who were eligible for IVT, 341 subjects were recruited and constituted the ITT population. Twenty-three participants (6.7%) did not complete the study with the dropout rate being equal between the groups. Thus, 318 patients formed the dataset for PP analysis (Fig. CONSORT flow chartAlthough the majority of clinical, laboratory and imaging data were not different between the arms at baseline, the participants occurred to be imbalance in a few variables: the patients in the Cerebrolysin group were slightly younger and, as a result, had fewer cases of hypertension and previous stroke (Table Baseline CharacteristicsMoreover, the univariate logistic regression analysis revealed a specific set of HT predictors in the recruited patients on admission. Thus, the patients with a higher NIHSS score and serum levels of creatinine and urea were more likely to develop symptomatic HT. In contrast, participants with higher diastolic blood pressure and values of albumin and hemoglobin were less likely to encounter symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage. Interestingly, the well-established risk factors like age, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, previous stroke, and ASPECTS score were not identified as HT predictors in our patients (Table Risk factors of symptomatic HT on admission, ITT population, univariate logistic regression, 