Reducing high blood pressure can reduce the risk of dementia

Reducing high blood pressure reduces the risk of dementia and cognitive impali, according to a large study of people in China.

Many studies have attached high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, with a greater risk of developing dementia. Some studies have also indicated that a side effect of blood pressure treatment may be lower dementia risk.

Now he has at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and his colleagues directly viewed on the effectiveness of medicine that reduces blood pressure on dementia and cognitive impairment.

They studied 33,995 people in rural China, which Woh was all 40 older and had hypertension. Participants were divided into one of two random groups, each with an average age of approx. 63 years old.

The first group received an average of three anti-hypertensive medications, such as ACE inhibitors, diuretics or calcium channel blockers to aggressively ensure that their blood pressure remained down. They also had coaching on the monitoring of blood press with the home and about lifestyle change that could help keep blood press down, included weight loss and reduction of alcohol and salt ingestion.

The second set, which was treated as the control group, got the same coaching and a more usual level of treatment for the region, which on average only involved a medication.

In a follow -up agreement after 48 months, participants got their blood press tested and were measured for signs of cognitive impairment standard questionnaires.

Hypertension concerns start when a person’s systolic pressure exceeds 130 millimeters of mercury (mmhg) or diastolic pressure exceeds 80 mmhg – that is, blood pressure higher than 130/80.

On average, people who receive many medications had lost their blood press from 157.0/87.9 down to 127.6/72.6 mmHg, while the control group managed to take it from 155.4/87.2 down just slightly to 147.7/81.0 mmhg.

The researchers also found that compared to the control group, 15 percent fewer people on more medicine received a dementia diagnosis during the study, and 16 percent fewer had cognitive impairment.

“The results of this study show that blood pressure reduction is effective in reducing the risk of dementia in patients with ancontrolled hypertension,” he says. “This proven-efficient intervention should be adopted and scaled up to a large extent to reduce the global burden of dementia.”

“For many years, many people have known that blood pressure is a likely risk factor for dementia, and this has provided super compelling proof of the clinical advantage of medical reduction medicine,” says Zachary Marcum at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Raj Shah at Rush University in Chicago says it is useful to increase dementia that it is useful to increase dementia puzzle because more factors affect the brain as we grow older.

“We should treat high blood pressure for several reasons,” says Shah. “For people’s lifetime and well -being, and therefore they can age healthy over time.”

Marcum also says that people to avoid dementia should think more far -reaching than almost blood pressure. He says there are other known risk factors that are linked to an engressed risk of dementia, included tuxedo, inactivity, obesity, social insulation and hearing loss.

And different factors are becoming more affecting in different internships in life. To reduce the risk of dementia, “there must be a holistic approach during life in life,” Shah says.