The Strategy of Blood Pressure Intervention in Elderly Hypertensive Patients (STEP) trial that included mainly young-old (54% women, mean age 66 years old) and low-to-mild-risk hypertensive patients (94% already treated at baseline ) in China who had a smartphone and were able to use smartphone applications demonstrated that intensive reduction in the office systolic blood pressure (BP) to a target of 110 to <130 mmHg (intensive treatment) resulted in a significantly lower incidence of cardiovascular events than reduction to a target of 130 to <150 mmHg (standard treatment) during a median follow-up period of 3.34 years.
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