Nature Reviews Cardiology | 2021
Are blood-pressure targets needed to prevent cardiovascular disease?
Abstract
Mounting evidence from the SPRINT trial and the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists points towards the use of absolute cardiovascular risk assessment to guide blood-pressure management. But who will fall between the cracks? We need to be pragmatic in keeping blood-pressure targets, if only to serve the >1 billion people at risk of cardiovascular disease living in low-resource settings.