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If all untreated patients with Stage I or II hypertension had been treated and achieved normal blood pressures, there would have been 420,000 fewer hospital discharges in 2002 than actually occurred because of stroke and myocardial infarction.
Cutler D, Long G, Berndt E, Royer J, et al. The Value Of Antihypertensive Drugs: A perspective on medical innovation. Health Affairs. 2007; 26(1): 97-110