SLIDE 19
- Background
- Clinical trials demonstrate antihypertensive drug therapy reduces
risk of CVD.
- However, optimal target for SBP lowering uncertain. Most
guidelines target SBP <140 mm Hg based on limited evidence.
- A prior trial aiming for SBP <120 mm Hg (vs. <140 mm Hg) in
diabetics showed null effect, less stroke, more harm.
- Objective: Compare the benefit of treatment of systolic blood
pressure to a target of less than 120 mm Hg with treatment to a target
- f less than 140 mm Hg in non‐diabetic patients
SPRINT Background/Rationale
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Participants: Age 50+, SBP 130‐180, and ↑ risk for CVD
‐ Clinical or subclinical CVD (not stroke or active CHF); CKD; 10‐year CVD risk ≥15%; or age 75+; excluded those with DM
Intervention: Target SBP <120 mm Hg Comparator: Target SBP <140 mm Hg Outcomes: 1o: Composite of MI, ACS, Stroke, Acute decompensated HF, CVD death; 2o: Primary components, total mortality Time Course: Planned 5‐year average follow up; stopped early after 3.3 years for total mortality benefit Setting: 102 centers in US and Puerto Rico Funded by NIH
SPRINT PICOTS
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