Table 3.

Number of Deaths Between Year 2 and Year 17 by rSSR Category

rSSR Categories, mm Hg	Combined			Placebo			Active			Rate Ratio Active/Placebo
	No.	CV Deaths, No.	Rate	No.	CV Deaths, No.	Rate	No.	CV Deaths, No.	Rate
<40	745	144	19.3	344	80	23.3	401	64	16.0	0.69
40 to <60	1850	416	22.5	863	206	23.9	987	210	21.3	0.89
60 to <80	1111	290	26.1	578	155	26.8	533	135	25.3	0.94
≥80	550	153	27.8	311	81	26.0	239	72	30.1	1.16
Total	4256	1003	23.6	2096	522	24.9	2160	481	22.3	0.89

Abbreviations: CV, cardiovascular; rSSR, sum of squared deviations between each daily average systolic blood pressure value and the trend‐predicted systolic blood pressure.