Study: A Cardiovascular Risk-based Strategy for the Treatment of Hypertensive Patients Could Prevent More Cardiovascular Disease Events

Eligibility and subsequent burden of cardiovascular disease of four strategies for blood pressure-lowering treatment: a retrospective cohort study – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Strategies to identify patients for antihypertensive treatment – The Lancet (free) AND Using cardiovascular risk to identify patients eligible for blood pressure treatment could prevent significantly more heart attacks and strokes – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (free) AND Expert reaction to paper on identifying those eligible for blood pressure treatment and subsequent burden of cardiovascular disease – Science Media Centre (free)

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NEW online: A #cardiovascular risk-based strategy could prevent over a third more cardiovascular disease events than the 2011 #NICE guideline and a fifth more than the 2019 #NICE guideline https://t.co/ZmfLpyN3iN @LSHTM

— The Lancet (@TheLancet) July 26, 2019