Journal article
Blood pressure-lowering treatment based on cardiovascular risk: a meta-analysis of individual patient data
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate whether the benefits of blood pressure-lowering drugs are proportional to baseline cardiovascular risk, to establish whether absolute risk could be used to inform treatment decisions for blood pressure-lowering therapy, as is recommended for lipid-lowering therapy.
METHODS: This meta-analysis included individual participant data from trials that randomly assigned patients to either blood pressure-lowering …
Authors
Collaboration TBPLTT
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 384, No. 9943, pp. 591–598
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
August 2014
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61212-5
ISSN
0140-6736