Posted on 10/25/2022 9:51:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A global study of more than 28,000 people has provided the strongest evidence to date that lowering blood pressure in later life can cut the risk of dementia.
Dr. Ruth Peters said that in the absence of significant breakthroughs, reducing the risk of developing the disease would be a welcome step forward.
"Our study suggests that using readily available treatments to lower blood pressure is currently one of our 'best bets' to tackle this insidious disease."
Dr. Peters explained that while many trials have looked at the health benefits of lowering blood pressure, not many included dementia outcomes and even fewer were placebo-controlled—considered to provide the best level of evidence.
To examine the relationship between blood pressure and dementia more closely, researchers analyzed five double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trials that used different blood pressure lowering treatments and followed patients until the development of dementia.
A total of 28,008 individuals with an average age of 69 and a history of high blood pressure from 20 countries were included. The mid-range of follow up was just over four years.
"We found there was a significant effect of treatment in lowering the odds of dementia associated with a sustained reduction in blood pressure in this older population," said Dr. Peters.
"Our results imply a broadly linear relationship between blood pressure reduction and lower risk of dementia, regardless of which type of treatment was used."
"Our study provides the highest grade of available evidence to show that blood pressure lowering treatment over several years reduces the risk of dementia, and we did not see any evidence of harm," said Dr. Peters.
"But what we still don't know is whether additional blood pressure lowering in people who already have it well-controlled or starting treatment earlier in life would reduce the long-term risk of dementia," she added.
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High BP causes strokes which can damage the brain. It’s what killed Curly Howard at only 48. He suffered one stroke after another, he had retinal hemorrhages, was paralyzed then had brain damage
So Biden and Fetterman both had uncontrolled hypertension?
#3 Getting hit in the head did not help him at all!!
The Three Stooges - Slaps, Smacks and Pokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0riLqQBj0
I have a wrist blood pressure device and my numbers are mostly normal like 120 over 80.
That indicates that ‘Rats should retire as that would lower my BP.
[Ditch and McCarthy too.]
Dementia & Alzheimer’s are fundamentally the same. They already proved the cause of AZ...but they buried it. Blood pressure was hardly a factor.
Are you equating Alzheimers with any of the types of dementia?
Surely you can’t be serious.
Surely you jest.
Denial in the face of truth exposing corporate medical & government propaganda over Alzheimer’s - particularly after the ‘pandemic’ of the past 3 years - is especially troubling.
If everyone doesn’t grasp the fake paradigm that the Alzheimer’s research money machine has created (among others, e.g., heart disease), then we’ve not only accomplished nothing since 2020...we’ve backslid significantly.
We are in deep trouble.
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