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Systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular health

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New analyses are prompting a shift in how we think about systolic blood pressure, with substantial benefits to be gained from population-wide interventions alongside targeting high-risk groups.

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Fig. 1: Approaches to SBP reduction at the population level.

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  2. Department of Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India

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P.J. is supported by the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Senior Fellowship (IA/CPHS/20/1/505229) and received research grants from the US National Heart Lung and Blood Institute for a worksite-based cardiovascular risk reduction initiative (5R01HL125442-05) and from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (1160283 and 1169766), the World Diabetes Federation (WDF-15-959) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for diabetes and hypertension risk reduction interventions. S.H. received funding from ICMR, New Delhi, for establishing a Centre for Advanced Research and Excellence (CARE) in Heart Failure (55/4/5/CARE-HF/2018-NCD-II). P.J. is an active collaborator and an investigator in the CARE. The funders had no role in generating the data presented or in the preparation of the manuscript.

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Jeemon, P., Harikrishnan, S. Systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular health. Nat Med 28, 2003–2004 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-02005-9

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