Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sexton, Donal J
• Kenny, Roseanne M
• O’Seaghdha, Conall M
• Bellows, Brandon K
• Bress, Adam P
• Moran, Andrew E

Titel

Cost-Effectiveness of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2017-11, Vol.377 (22), p.2199-2200

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Freely accessible e-journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To the Editor: Bress et al. (Aug. 24 issue) 1 report on the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) cost-effectiveness analysis of intensive blood-pressure lowering. However, the generalizability of such simulations is dependent on the external validity of the risks of adverse events attributed to the intervention. In our community-based, prospective cohort study that was representative of the community-dwelling population of Ireland, 2 among participants who were 75 years of age or older and who met the inclusion criteria for SPRINT, the rates of injurious falls and syncope were approximately five times the rates among participants who were 75 years of age . . .