Empowered Health News | Blood Pressure Cognitive Impairment

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Approximately 50 million people in the U.S. suffer from hypertension, and what is most concerning is that nearly 15 million people are undiagnosed.

The latest issue of Archives of Neurology has revealed that high blood pressure is associated with an increased risk of mild cognitive impairment-a condition that affects thinking and learning. Nearly 10 of every 1,000 elderly individuals without dementia develop mild cognitive impairment yearly. Of those, 10 percent to 12 percent progress to Alzheimer's disease each year, compared with 1 percent to 2 percent of the general population. During the study, Researchers followed over 900 Medicare recipients age 65 and over without mild cognitive impairment beginning in 1992 through 1994. Participants underwent an initial interview and physical, in addition to tests of cognitive function. They then were examined again every 18 months for an average of 4.7 years.

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