Effects of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Standard Glycemic Control and in Those Without Diabetes Mellitus: Reconciling Results From ACCORD BP and SPRINT

Effects of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Standard Glycemic Control and in Those Without Diabetes Mellitus: Reconciling Results From ACCORD BP and SPRINT

Background Intensive systolic blood pressure (SBP) lowering significantly reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) but not in ACCORD BP (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Blood Pressure). Methods and Results SPRINT tested the...

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Main Authors: Srinivasan Beddhu, Glenn M. Chertow, Tom Greene, Paul K. Whelton, Walter T. Ambrosius, Alfred K. Cheung, Jeffrey Cutler, Lawrence Fine, Robert Boucher, Guo Wei, Chong Zhang, Holly Kramer, Adam P. Bress, Paul L. Kimmel, Suzanne Oparil, Cora E. Lewis, Mahboob Rahman, William C. Cushman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
cardiovascular outcomes
diabetes mellitus
high blood pressure
hypertension
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.009326

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