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Hypertension drug may hold promise for Alzheimer’s disease

A drug used to treat blood pressure also increases blood flow to the brain’s memory and learning centre among people with Alzheimer’s disease without affecting other parts of the brain, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension.

A drug used to treat blood pressure also increases blood flow to the brain’s memory and learning centre among people with Alzheimer’s disease without affecting other parts of the brain, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. These findings indicate that the known decrease in cerebral blood flow in patients with Alzheimer’s can be reversed in some regions. However, an important question is whether this observed increase in cerebral blood flow translates to clinical benefits, the authors note. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. The risk for the disease increases with age and the causes

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