Taken together, the writing committee recommends the use of PREVENT to estimate 10-year risk for CVD for adults with hypertension without clinical CVD in determining the BP threshold for initiation of therapies (Section 5.2.1, Initiation of Pharmacological BP Treatment in the Context of Overall CVD Risk) and the BP goal for treatment (Section 5.2.7, BP Goal for Patients With Hypertension)
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