Mar 13 2006
Blood-Pressure Drugs May Lower Alzheimer’s Risk
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This latest study does not surprise me at all. We’ve known for years that keeping one’s blood pressure normal can reduce the risk of dementia related to vasular causes (vascular dementia).
It seems the more we learn about the effects that high blood pressure has on us, the better off we really are at keeping it low (not just normal).
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Blood-Pressure Drugs May Lower Alzheimer’s Risk
03.13.06, 12:00 AM ET
MONDAY, Mar. 13 (HealthDay News) — Taking medications to lower blood pressure, particularly diuretics, may help reduce risks for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests.
Experts speculate that high blood pressure may increase the risk of the brain-wasting disease. That means drugs that ease hypertension — another name for high blood pressure — might also lower Alzheimer’s risk.
In fact, “we found that among people taking anti-hypertensives, there was an overall 40 percent reduction in the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease over a three- to four-year period,” said study co-author Peter P. Zandi, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
