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SPORTS MEDICINE :
HEART HEALTH: BLOOD PRESSURE:
Lower Blood Pressure Guidelines Could Be Lifesaving, Federal Study Says
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Lower Blood Pressure Guidelines Could Be Lifesaving, Federal Study Says
By GINA KOLATA
September 11, 2015
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/health/blood-pressure-study.html
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Declaring they had potentially lifesaving information, federal health
officials said on Friday that they were ending a major study more than a
year early because it has already conclusively answered a question
cardiologists have puzzled over for decades: How low should blood pressure
go?
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The answer: way lower than the current guidelines.
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For years doctors have been uncertain what the optimal goal should be for
patients with high blood pressure. The aim of course is to bring it down,
but how far and how aggressively remained a mystery. There are trade-offs
risks and side effects from drugs and there were lingering questions
about whether older patients needed somewhat higher blood pressure to push
blood to the brain.
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The study found that patients who were assigned to reach a systolic blood
pressure goal below 120 far lower than current guidelines of 140, or 150
for people over 60 had their risk of heart attacks, heart failure and
strokes reduced by a third and their risk of death reduced by nearly a
quarter.
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The study, called Sprint, randomly assigned more than 9,300 men and women
ages 50 and over who were at high risk of heart disease or had kidney
disease to of two systolic blood pressure targets: less than 120
millimeters of mercury, which is lower than any guideline ever suggested,
or less than 140. (Systolic pressure is the higher of the two blood
pressure numbers and represents pressure on blood vessels when the heart
contracts.)
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The study was expected to conclude in 2017, but considering the results of
great importance to public health, the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute announced them Friday morning, saying a paper with the data
would be published within a few months.
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This study provides potentially lifesaving information, Dr. Gary H.
Gibbons, director of the institute, said in a statement announcing the
decision.
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Nearly 79 million adults in this country one of three have high blood
pressure, and half of those being treated for it still have systolic
pressures over 140.
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This study will shake things up, predicted Dr. J. F Michael Gaziano, a
professor of medicine at Harvard who was not involved with the study. He
anticipated that it would have the same effect on peoples thinking about
blood pressure as studies of about lowering cholesterol levels did when
they showed that, contrary to what many had thought, the lower the number
the better.
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It is outstanding news, said Dr. Mark Creager, president of the American
Heart Association and director of the Heart and Vascular Center at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, who was not involved in the study. It
will serve as a road map and will save a significant amount of lives.
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If guidelines are changed because of this study as blood pressure experts
expect that they will be an already falling death rate from heart attacks
and stroke could drop even more, said Dr. Jackson T. Wright Jr., a blood
pressure expert at Case Western Reserve University and University
Hospitals Case Medical Center, and a study investigator. Because
cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death in the United
States, a change in blood pressure goals could also reduce the nations
overall mortality rate, he said.
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