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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Sep 11;72(11):1187–1197. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.05.074

Figure 1. Distribution of REGARDS study participants not taking antihypertensive medication by blood pressure category and recommendation for pharmacological treatment initiation.

Figure 1.

ACC: American College of Cardiology; AHA: American Heart Association; CVD: cardiovascular disease; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; REGARDS: REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke; SBP: systolic blood pressure.* Blood pressure categories are mutually exclusive. Participants whose SBP and DBP correspond to two separate categories were assigned to the higher blood pressure group† Recommendations for antihypertensive medication initiation according to the 2017 ACC/AHA blood pressure guideline are shown in Online Table 2.