Abstract:Objective To investigate the effect of early intensive antihypertensive therapy versus standard guideline antihypertensive therapy on functional improvement and prognosis of elderly patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (HICH).Methods A total of 200 elderly patients with HICH who were treated in Nanba Branch of Bazhong Central Hospital from March 2016 to January 2019 were enrolled and divided into intensive antihypertensive therapy group and standard antihypertensive therapy group using a random number table, with 100 patients in each group. On the basis of routine intervention, the patients in the intensive antihypertensive therapy group were given intensive antihypertensive therapy, and those in the standard antihypertensive therapy group were given standard antihypertensive therapy. Related indices were measured before treatment and on days 1, 7, and 14 after treatment, i.e., neurological score (National Institute of Health Stroke Scale), hematoma volume and hematoma enlargement rate, nuclear factor-κβ (NF-κβ), von Willebrand factor (vWF), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), and prognosis was evaluated during the 3-month follow-up after treatment.Results As for neurological function, there was a significant difference in neurological score between different time points (P<0.05), and there were significant differences in neurological score and its changing trend between the intensive antihypertensive therapy group and the standard antihypertensive therapy group (P<0.05). As for hematoma volume and hematoma enlargement rate, both groups had an increase in hematoma volume on day 1 after treatment, while the intensive antihypertensive therapy group had a lower volume than the standard antihypertensive therapy group, and on day 7, the intensive antihypertensive therapy group had a significantly higher hematoma enlargement rate than the standard antihypertensive therapy group (91.00% vs 74.00%, P<0.05). There were significant differences in the levels of NF-κβ, vWF, TNF-α, and MMP-9 between different time points (P<0.05) and between the intensive antihypertensive therapy group and the standard antihypertensive therapy group (P<0.05), and there were also significant differences in the changing trends of NF-κβ, vWF, TNF-α, and MMP-9 between the two groups (P<0.05). Compared with the standard antihypertensive therapy group, the intensive antihypertensive therapy group had a better prognostic effect and a significantly higher good prognosis rate (60.00% vs 38.00%, P<0.05).Conclusions Compared with standard antihypertensive therapy, early intensive antihypertensive therapy has a better effect on the treatment of HICH and can effectively improve patients' neurological function, inhibit the enlargement of hematoma, regulate the serum levels of the indices including NF-κβ and vWF, and improve prognosis.