Cardiovascular outcomes at recommended blood pressure targets in middle-aged and elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus compared to all middle-aged and elderly hypertensive study patients with high cardiovascular risk

Event-based clinical outcome trials have shown limited evidence to support guidelines recommendations to lower blood pressure (BP) to n = 5250) were compared with the entire VALUE population with high CV risk (n = 15,245). After adjustments for baseline differences between groups, a reduction in the proportion of visits in which BP was reduced to