Journal article
Intensive versus standard blood pressure treatment improves cardiovascular outcomes without any difference in patient-reported outcomes
- Abstract:
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The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) was a large, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) originally reported in 2015.1 The trial randomly assigned 9361 individuals with hypertension at high risk of cardiovascular disease (but without diabetes or stroke) to intensive blood pressure (BP) control (systolic BP less than 120 mm Hg) or standard BP control (systolic BP less than 140 mm Hg). There was a significant reduction in cardiovascular events and mortality in the int...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 114-115
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2515-4478
- ISSN:
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2515-4478
- Pmid:
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29789320
- Source identifiers:
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854637
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- English
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- pubs:854637
- Deposit date:
- 2018-07-05
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- 2018
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