Figure 3From: Antihypertensive medication versus health promotion for improving metabolic syndrome in preventing cardiovascular events: a success rate-oriented simulation study Relationship between systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular event rate before and after prescribing traditional antihypertensive medications. The solid black, dotted black (>160 mm Hg), dashed grey (>150 mm Hg), and dashed black (>140 mm Hg) lines represent no antihypertensive treatment and realistic, optimistic, and ideal antihypertensive treatments, respectively. The area between the solid black line and the corresponding line represents the reduction in the incidence rate of cardiovascular events.Back to article page