Cost-effectiveness of Intensive Blood Pressure Management.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Among high-risk patients with hypertension, targeting a systolic blood pressure of 120 mm Hg reduces cardiovascular morbidity and mortality compared with a higher target. However, intensive blood pressure management incurs additional costs from treatment and from adverse events.

Objective

To evaluate the incremental cost-effectiveness of intensive blood pressure management compared with standard management.

Design, setting, and participants

This cost-effectiveness analysis conducted from September 2015 to August 2016 used a Markov cohort model to estimate cost-effectiveness of intensive blood pressure management among 68-year-old high-risk adults with hypertension but not diabetes. We used the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) to estimate

SUBMITTER: Richman IB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5892423 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature