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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2016 Nov 23;135(2):153–165. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.025471

Figure 3. CAC Stratifies a Range of Estimated Number Needed to Treat to a target systolic BP of 120 mmHg; among Categories of Baseline Systolic BP and ASCVD risk (primary MESA study sample, N=3,733).

Figure 3

The NNT estimates within each category of ASCVD risk (calculated using traditional risk factors according to the 2013 ACC/AHA pooled cohort equations14) and Systolic BP consist of mean NNT10 for persons with CAC=0 (upper limit), mean NNT10 for persons with CAC 1-100 (solid square), and mean NNT10 for persons with CAC >100 (lower limit)