Lowering systolic blood pressure to 120 mmHg or The Lancet's true grit

Affiliations

• ¹ Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University of Bern, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse, Bern 3010, Switzerland.
• ² Departement for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, Switzerland.
• ³ University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of Hypertension, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Vodnikova 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ⁴ Imperial College London, National Heart & Lung Institute, ICTEM Building, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK.
• ⁵ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
• ⁶ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, Pisa 56126, Italy.