Journal article
Impact of the 2017 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology hypertension guideline in aged individuals
Enayet Karim Chowdhury, Michael E Ernst, Mark Nelson, Karen Margolis, Lawrie J Beilin, Collin Johnston, Robyn Woods, Anne Murray, Rory Wolfe, Elsdon Storey, Raj C Shah, Jessica Lockery, Andrew Tonkin, Anne Newman, Walter Abhayaratna, Nigel Stocks, Sharyn Fitzgerald, Suzanne Orchard, Ruth Trevaks, Geoffrey Donnan Show all
Journal of Hypertension | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Published : 2020
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The AHA/ACC-2017 hypertension guideline recommends an age-independent target blood pressure (BP) of less than 130/80 mmHg. In an elderly cohort without established cardiovascular disease (CVD) at baseline, we determined the impact of this guideline on the prevalence of hypertension and associated CVD risk. METHODS: Nineteen thousand, one hundred and fourteen participants aged at least 65 years from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) study were grouped by baseline BP: 'pre-2017 hypertensive' (BP ≥140/90 mmHg and/or on antihypertensive drugs); 'reclassified hypertensive' (normotensive by pre-2017 guidelines; hypertensive by AHA/ACC-2017 guideline), and 'normoten..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The work was supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (grant number U01AG029824); the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (grant numbers 334047, 1127060); Monash University (Australia); and the Victorian Cancer Agency (Australia).