DISCUSSION
Our model predicts that the achievement of goals for the treatment of hypertension as outlined in the 2014 guidelines would be cost-saving in reducing mortality and morbidity associated with cardiovascular disease in previously untreated adults with hypertension. Effectiveness and cost savings were mainly driven by very favorable results that we projected for secondary prevention in patients with cardiovascular disease and for primary prevention in patients with stage 2 hypertension. In the latter group, cost savings remained robust in sensitivity analyses of effectiveness, cost, and side effects.