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Figure 1 Potential influence of the SPRINT trial in blood-pressure goals in daily clinical practice
Figure 1 | Potential influence of the SPRINT trial in blood-pressure goals in daily clinical practice. Potential decisions in clinical practice according to whether the patient with hypertension meets the inclusion criteria for the SPRINT trial (blue). If patients do not meet these criteria, clinicians should probably follow blood-pressure targets recommended in current guidelines (red). The percentage of patients that meet the inclusion criteria (and are amenable to be 'sprinted') is about 20–30% of all patients with hypertension, compared with 70–80% of patients with hypertension who do not meet the SPRINT criteria (estimates are based on Refs 31,32). For strict applicability of blood-pressure targets, blood pressure should be measured in an unattended clinical setting such as with the automated office blood-pressure (AOBP) measurement.
Ruiz-Hurtado, G. et al. (2017) Has the SPRINT trial introduced a new blood-pressure goal in hypertension?
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