Tag Archive for: SPRINT Study

Blood Pressure: Lifestyle First

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Today I’m going to share a caution from one of the lead authors in the Mayo Clinic arm of the study and tell you what I think is the biggest mistake the researchers made in announcing the preliminary results of the SPRINT Study.

The Mayo Clinic posted a video from Dr. William Haley, a lead researcher in the SPRINT Study; remember there were 102 different clinical sites that provided data for this study. What he said was significant. Here’s my interpretation: The results of a large study such . . .

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Blood Pressure: More Drugs

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Continuing our look at the SPRINT Study from Tuesday, the study showed a significant reduction in mortality from cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes in subjects older than 50. I can’t argue that those are important results. The question is how did they do it? Here’s how: The group of subjects whose target systolic blood pressure (SBP) was less than 140 were treated with an average of two antihypertensive medications. What did they do with the group whose target SPB was less than . . .

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Blood Pressure: A Moving Target

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In a press release this past weekend, the National Institute of Health released preliminary results of the SPRINT Study (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. It reported that lowering the target systolic blood pressure (SBP) from 140 mm Hg to 120 mm Hg in people over 50 years old significantly reduced the death rate and cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes.

The subjects were recruited from 102 clinical centers throughout the U.S. (1). The conditions for inclusion in the trial were that men and women must be 50 or . . .

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