Lower Blood Pressure Target Can Reduce Cardiovascular Disease, Deaths

by Press on November 10, 2015

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Bethesda, Maryland--(ENEWSPF)--November 10, 2015. NIH-supported researchers are reporting more details on a landmark study that announced preliminary findings in September showing a lower blood pressure target can save lives and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in a group of non-diabetic adults 50 years and older with high blood pressure. Results of the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) appear in the current online issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and were . . .