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Blood pressure and dementia
- Source :
- Neurology. 92:1017-1018
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019.
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Abstract
- High blood pressure (BP) has been associated with an increased risk of cerebrovascular disease, stroke, and Alzheimer disease pathology. Epidemiologic studies are consistent in showing that high BP, particularly in midlife, is a risk factor for the development of dementia in late life. However, supporting randomized evidence of the inference that BP-lowering therapy can prevent dementia has been slow in coming over the last 30 years. The most recent randomized trial, the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial—Memory and Cognition in Decreased Hypertension (SPRINT-MIND), therefore, makes a pivotal contribution to the field, reemphasizing broader public health benefits of BP lowering and directing future research.1
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Public health
Cognition
medicine.disease
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Blood pressure
Randomized controlled trial
law
medicine
Dementia
030212 general & internal medicine
Neurology (clinical)
Alzheimer's disease
Risk factor
Intensive care medicine
business
Stroke
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1526632X and 00283878
- Volume :
- 92
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7568fb7c90fb226edd595cc48ac14f75