{"id":1481,"date":"2010-03-24T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/accord-bigger-issues-for-our-patients\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:09","slug":"accord-bigger-issues-for-our-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/03\/24\/accord-bigger-issues-for-our-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCORD: Bigger Issues for Our Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now at a point where it is increasingly difficult to demonstrate the incremental value of any preventive therapy, as we are successful in reducing CV risk to lower and lower levels. What is\u00a0my take on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/nejm\/content\/full\/2010\/314\/1001286\">ACCORD BP study<\/a>? It&#8217;s that we should focus on ensuring that all patients achieve at least the &#8220;conservative&#8221; risk factor goals that were achieved in ACCORD.<\/p>\n<p>While we argue over which target to achieve for BP, millions of Americans remain unaware of their blood pressure, and few with elevated levels are treated to even conservative goals.\u00a0 To me, this is the bigger issue for our patients and for us as clinicians and healthcare providers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;what are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now at a point where it is increasingly difficult to demonstrate the incremental value of any preventive therapy, as we are successful in reducing CV risk to lower and lower levels. What is\u00a0my take on the ACCORD BP study? It&#8217;s that we should focus on ensuring that all patients achieve at least the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}