Controlling blood pressure helps prevent dementia

In a series of newly published studies, scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the American Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have confirmed that high blood pressure associated with dementia and blood pressure control are Best measures to prevent dementia in middle age.

Researching the brains of hypertensive people, scientists found high blood pressure that appeared brain scars and then developed into Alzheimer's disease and other dementia.

These scars will appear more in middle age.

The results of this new study have been applied effectively by American National Institutes of Health to treat high blood pressure patients with powerful therapies to lower blood pressure below the prescribed level.

This therapy not only helps protect the heart but is also good for the patient's brain.

Dr. Walter Koroshetz, deputy director of the American Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, also affirmed that in the measures to prevent dementia in the elderly, blood pressure control has now become a leading measure. .