Can antihypertensive treatment restore the risk of cardiovascular disease to ideal levels?
Antihypertensive treatment alone is insufficient to restore cardiovascular risk to ideal levels, highlighting the critical need for primordial prevention of blood pressure increases.
The data suggest that based on the current approach, antihypertensive treatment cannot restore cardiovascular disease risk to ideal levels. Emphasis should be placed on primordial prevention of BP increases to further reduce cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality.
Liu et al. (2015) studied this question.