Mounting evidence from the SPRINT trial and the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists points towards the use of absolute cardiovascular risk assessment to guide blood-pressure management. But who will fall between the cracks? We need to be pragmatic in keeping blood-pressure targets, if only to serve the >1 billion people at risk of cardiovascular disease living in low-resource settings.

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预防心血管疾病需要达到血压目标吗？

来自 SPRINT 试验和降压治疗试验者的越来越多的证据表明使用绝对心血管风险评估来指导血压管理。但谁会掉进夹缝中呢？如果只是为了服务生活在资源匮乏环境中的超过 10 亿面临心血管疾病风险的人，我们就需要务实地保持血压目标。