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Do you recommend performing cognitive testing in the clinic to determine the blood pressure target in patients 80 years or older?

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Nephrology · UAB Medicine

SPRINT-MIND helps to answer this question. The total number of individuals developing dementia (the primary outcome in SPRINT-MIND) was fewer then expected after a median intervention period of only 3.3 years. This made SPRINT-MIND underpowered to detect the effects of intensive BP reduction on deve...