Does achieving 2017 ACC/AHA blood pressure goals prevent more cardiovascular disease events compared to older JNC guidelines?
Adopting the stricter 2017 ACC/AHA blood pressure guidelines may prevent more cardiovascular events compared to older guidelines, though potentially at the cost of increased serious adverse events.
Achieving and maintaining 2017 ACC/AHA BP goals could prevent a greater number of CVD events than achieving 2003 Seventh Joint National Committee Report or 2014 Eighth Joint National Committee BP goals but could also lead to more serious adverse events.
Bress et al. (Fri,) studied this question.