Antihypertensives in dementia: Good or bad for the brain?

J Cereb Blood Flow Metab

Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboudumc Alzheimer Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Published: October 2023

We discuss the current evidence for both benefit and harm of antihypertensive treatment in people with dementia. We conclude that there is a lack of evidence to support the claim that there is an increased risk of cerebral hypoperfusion with antihypertensive treatment in dementia, and that there is growing evidence which refutes this claim.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10581244PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0271678X231179421DOI Listing

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