Important practice lessons from the SPRINT study beyond the blood pressure goal: all well known and now confirmed

Affiliations

¹ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: gstergi@med.uoa.gr.
² Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Department of Veterans Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.

Editorial

George S Stergiou et al. J Am Soc Hypertens. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;10(8):613-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2016.06.002. Epub 2016 Jun 16.

¹ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: gstergi@med.uoa.gr.
² Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Department of Veterans Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.

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A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control.
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