Blood pressure-lowering treatment lowers mortality and cardiovascular disease risk, but whether effects differ at an arbitrary threshold of 140 mm Hg systolic blood pressure requires further research

BMJ Evid Based Med. 2018 Oct;23(5):189-190. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2018-110934. Epub 2018 May 24.

Authors

Dexter Canoy¹, Kazem Rahimi¹

Affiliation

¹ The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

PMID: 29794113
DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2018-110934

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical trials; hypertension; preventive medicine; primary care.

Publication types

Review
Comment

MeSH terms

Blood Pressure Determination*
Blood Pressure*
Cardiovascular Diseases
Humans
Hypertension