{"id":2461,"date":"2025-04-22T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/lowering-blood-pressure-cuts-dementia-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:51:50","slug":"lowering-blood-pressure-cuts-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/lowering-blood-pressure-cuts-dementia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering blood pressure cuts dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-22 14:51:50<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Lowering blood pressure can reduce the risk of dementia. <BR><br \/>\nA new study was published in Nature Medicine and shows that people with high blood pressure &#8211; who took medication and lowered it &#8211; reduced their risk of the brain disease by 15 per cent, according to scientists. <BR><br \/>\nProfessor Jiang He, co-author of the study from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, said: \u201cAntihypertensive treatment can prevent dementia in patients with uncontrolled hypertension.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Given the high prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension worldwide, this effective intervention should be widely adopted and scaled up to reduce the global burden of dementia.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHigh blood pressure can increase the risk of dementia by damaging blood vessels in the brain, which reduces blood flow and can lead to strokes or brain damage.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Julia Dudley, from Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK, added: \u201cLooking after our heart and blood vessel health is something we can all do to improve our overall wellbeing and reduce our risk of dementia.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;With no current treatments available on the NHS to slow or stop the diseases that cause dementia, there has never been a more pressing need to promote good brain health and to gain a deeper understanding of how we can reduce our risk of developing dementia.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-22 14:51:50 Lowering blood pressure can reduce the risk of dementia. A new study was published in Nature Medicine and shows that people with high blood pressure &#8211; who took&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}