Predisposing Factors, Pathologies, and Precipitating Factors Causing Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

Most people with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) have hypertension, which is the strongest modifiable predisposing (risk) factor. However, multiple long-term medical conditions and other known predisposing factors for ICH usually coexist with hypertension, indicating that the causal pathway is multifactorial, and the term hypertensive ICH is oversimplistic. In this review, we integrate the highest quality evidence and our clinical …