Posted on 04/22/2025 8:02:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Reducing high blood pressure substantially lowers the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial involving almost 34,000 patients. These findings highlight the potential importance of widespread adoption of more intensive blood pressure control among patients with hypertension to reduce the global disease burden of dementia.
Research has found that people with untreated hypertension have a 42% greater risk of developing dementia in their lifetime than healthy study participants.
Jiang He and colleagues tested the effectiveness of an intervention led by non-physician community health care providers (sometimes called "village doctors") on blood pressure control, all-cause dementia and cognitive impairment in 33,995 patients with hypertension across villages in rural China. Patients were 40 years of age or older, based in rural China and had untreated hypertension.
In the intervention group, 17,407 patients received antihypertensive medication and health coaching on home blood pressure monitoring, lifestyle changes (including weight loss, dietary sodium reduction and alcohol reduction) and medication adherence. Those in the control group (also referred to as the usual care group) were trained in blood pressure management and had their blood pressure measured in a health care setting.
Over 48 months, the authors found that the intervention group achieved better blood pressure control, with more patients reaching target levels, than the control group. Intensive blood pressure management substantially reduced the risk of all-cause dementia by 15% and that of cognitive impairment by 16%.
The findings suggest that proven interventions aimed at reducing blood pressure could help to reduce the global incidence and impact of dementia, and that this intervention should be widely adopted and scaled up to reduce the global burden of dementia.
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Our bodies can’t handle the chronic high pressure. Of course organs will be hurt, including our brain.
There are ways to reverse arterial plaques and further bring down blood pressure naturally, but take the drugs if you can’t address it naturally.
My Lisinopril,/ Hydrochlorothiazide pills have become my New Best Friends. Zero side effects.
Bkmk
One major study also showed that those with higher blood pressure lived longer. I don’t have the study handy, but I suspect that it was those at the higher end of the ‘normal’ range at the time that lived longest, so maybe something like 145/92 or so.
If you think any pill, taken long term, meaning the cause of the disease has NOT been addressed, has zero side effect, you are either delusional or just repeating the lies of the drug dealers.
Thank you for posting this!
Everything comes down to what you feed your body on a regular basis and how much you move on a weekly basis.
I heard that dementia is now being called “diabetes type 3”.
Stop the sugar, eat whole foods and get out and MOVE.
Life-long exercise helps - I’m 72 and my BP averages 118/64 despite still getting over radiation and chemo.....
You’ll have to excuse “Dr miniTARD” here. He obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about per the nature of your specific HPB issue or how it’s been addressed or remedied. He’s a presumptuous little gas bag and has a history of these idiotic hit & run posts here.
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