NPPB and hematocrit: In the studies of Estrada et al. and Eguchi et al. it was found that BNP levels increased in the acute phase of stroke and that there was a positive correlation between blood pressure levels and BNP levels.[28, 29] In the another study, on patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, it was estimated that plasma BNP levels in patients with HT were higher than that in patients without HT.[30] In our study we found that plasma BNP levels in stroke patients with HT was higher than in stroke patients who did not have HT.