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SUBMITTER: Drawz PE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5145774 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Drawz Paul E PE Pajewski Nicholas M NM Bates Jeffrey T JT Bello Natalie A NA Cushman William C WC Dwyer Jamie P JP Fine Lawrence J LJ Goff David C DC Haley William E WE Krousel-Wood Marie M McWilliams Andrew A Rifkin Dena E DE Slinin Yelena Y Taylor Addison A Townsend Raymond R Wall Barry B Wright Jackson T JT Rahman Mahboob M
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20161114 1
The effect of clinic-based intensive hypertension treatment on ambulatory blood pressure (BP) is unknown. The goal of the SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) ambulatory BP ancillary study was to evaluate the effect of intensive versus standard clinic-based BP targets on ambulatory BP. Ambulatory BP was obtained within 3 weeks of the 27-month study visit in 897 SPRINT participants. Intensive treatment resulted in lower clinic systolic BP (mean difference between groups=16.0 mm Hg; ...[more]