Older Adults with Fuzzy Memories May Have Hypertension to Blame
September 1st, 2009
The experience of declining memory may be common to the process of aging, but a new study performed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that such an experience doesn’t have to be the norm. Working with information collected from over nineteen thousand participants over the age of forty five, the extensive study measure the relationship between high diastolic blood pressure and memory loss, finding that for each ten-point increase, there was a seven percent higher likelihood of difficulties in memory retrieval. The study may help those counseling people towards better health as they age explore greater options for preserving cognitive function.
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Hmm…I knew that hypertension does create problems for the transport of the right amount blood, and now I know that when this happens with respect to brain, it will definitely have effects that may be very serious for middle-aged people.
Does this mean that high blood pressure medication could actually help some of these people regain their memory, or is it a situation that once it is lost it is gone for good? Just another prime example of why we need to be more proactive instead of reactive when looking at medical treatment- prevent these things so that the secondary issues never have the chance to pop up.
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