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Cost-Effectiveness of Hypertension Therapy According to 2014 Guidelines

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  • BACKGROUND: On the basis of the 2014 guidelines for hypertension therapy in the United States, many eligible adults remain untreated. We projected the cost-effectiveness of treating hypertension in U.S. adults according to the 2014 guidelines. METHODS: We used the Cardiovascular Disease Policy Model to simulate drug-treatment and monitoring costs, costs averted for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained by treating previously untreated adults between the ages of 35 and 74 years from 2014 through 2024. We assessed cost-effectiveness according to age, hypertension level, and the presence or absence of chronic kidney disease or diabetes. RESULTS: The full implementation of the new hypertension guidelines would result in approximately 56,000 fewer cardiovascular events and 13,000 fewer deaths from cardiovascular causes annually, which would result in overall cost savings. The projections showed that the treatment of patients with existing cardiovascular disease or stage 2 hypertension would save lives and costs for men between the ages of 35 and 74 years and for women between the ages of 45 and 74 years. The treatment of men or women with existing cardiovascular disease or men with stage 2 hypertension but without cardiovascular disease would remain cost-saving even if strategies to increase medication adherence doubled treatment costs. The treatment of stage 1 hypertension was cost-effective (defined as <$50,000 per QALY) for all men and for women between the ages of 45 and 74 years, whereas treating women between the ages of 35 and 44 years with stage 1 hypertension but without cardiovascular disease had intermediate or low cost-effectiveness. CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of the 2014 hypertension guidelines for U.S. adults between the ages of 35 and 74 years could potentially prevent about 56,000 cardiovascular events and 13,000 deaths annually, while saving costs. Controlling hypertension in all patients with cardiovascular disease or stage 2 hypertension could be effective and cost-saving. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and others.)
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  • Moran, A. E., Odden, M. C., Thanataveerat, A., Tzong, K. Y., Rasmussen, P. W., Guzman, D., ... & Goldman, L. (2015). Cost-Effectiveness of Hypertension Therapy According to 2014 Guidelines. New England Journal of Medicine, 372(5), 447-455. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa1406751
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  • Supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01 HL107475-01), a grant from the American Heart Association Founder’s Affiliate Clinical Research Program (10CRP4140089), and a Columbia University Irving scholarship (all to Dr. Moran); and by a grant from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U54NS081760, to Dr. Bibbins-Domingo).
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