Controlling blood pressure would help your memory: study

A team of researchers found that people who receive intensive treatment with drugs for hypertension are less likely to develop early memory loss.

Scientists conducted a clinical trial to determine the impact of antihypertensive drugs on mild cognitive impairment and found that intensive treatment reduced the rate of loss of early memory of about 19%

Intensively treated patients developed fewer white matter lesions over time, researchers reported Wednesday Alzheimer's Association International Conference in the city of Chicago.

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It is believed that white matter lesions badociated with dementia are caused by damage to the blood vessels in the white matter, the part of the brain that contains nerve fibers.

The study involved more than nine thousand 300 participants, some receiving intensive treatment to reduce their systolic blood pressure (the pressure on the artery walls when the heart beats, below 120 millimeters of mercury), and others received a standard to bring it under 140.

The investigation team reported that the pair participants who received treatment intensive reduced the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems by 25 percent, compared to the group of volunteers with standard treatment.

The purpose of the research, whose findings were also published in the journal Science was to measure whether aggressive control of blood pressure benefits the brain with the heart and results have confirmed that this is the case.