SPRINT Would Cut BP Target to Less Than 120 mm Hg in High-CV-Risk Patients with HTN, No Diabetes

SPRINT Would Cut BP Target to Less Than 120 mm Hg in High-CV-Risk Patients with HTN, No Diabetes

Lower rates of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality are associated with targeting systolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg vs the standard, and guideline-recommended, rate of less than 140 mm Hg in patients at increased CV risk, according to full findings from the highly anticipated Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT).

SPRINT included more than 9000 US patients who were hypertensive but not diabetic, showed that the lower target group of less than 120 mm Hg systolic blood pressure had a 25% lower relative risk of the primary composite end point of MI, ACS, stroke, acute decompensated HF, and CV death vs the group with a target of less than 140 mm Hg.In addition, the lower-target group had 27% lower risk of all-cause mortality and 43% lower risk of CV death. However, this group also had higher adverse events such as hypotension, syncope, and acute kidney injury or failure.

The results of the trial were publicated in the New England Journal of Medicine Nov , 2015.

 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/854149

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1511939