OR69. The impact of hypertension on clinical outcome of hemorrhagic stroke patients

Hypertension is the hallmark of stroke that both increases the incidence and worsens the outcome of stroke. Hypertension is prevalent in the stroke population and is the most important modifiable risk factor for stroke. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of hypertension on the clinical outcome of hemorrhagic stroke patients.

This was a retrospective study using secondary data from the electronic stroke registry of Bethesda Hospital Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The data is taken from the beginning to the end of 2020. The outcomes of the study were death, disability, and independence. This study used SPSS 2.0 with a significance level of 0,05. Among 431 patients with hemorrhagic stroke, 250 (58,0 %) were males and the majority of patients were in the age group 61-70 years, which was 131 (30.4%). Patients with hemorrhagic stroke who had hypertension as a comorbid had a worse outcome. On the death outcome, 169 (91,8 %) patients had hypertension as a comorbid, and 19 (8,2 %) did not. In the disability outcome, 152 (80.9%) patients had hypertension and 36 (19.1%) did not. Meanwhile, in the independence outcome, patients with hypertension were fewer in number than those without, namely 21 patients (35.6%) vs. 38 patients (64.4%). (p < 0,05)

Clinical outcomes are worse in hemorrhagic stroke patients with comorbid hypertension than in those without. Blood pressure management in hemorrhagic stroke patients is urgently needed to improve clinical outcomes in hemorrhagic stroke patients.