KOTTAYAM, KERALA (Malayalam Manorama), December 6, 2005:
To avoid memory loss in old age, control your Blood Pressure! A new research suggests that uncontrolled hypertension puts people at higher risk for sharper drops in cognitive functions, says a report from Houston, USA.
The findings published in 'Neuropsychology' of the American Psychological Association, says that a substantial number of older people with uncontrolled hypertension will experience significant cognitive declines, especially because with age, hypertension becomes more common and harder to control.
The "silent killer" often goes undetected or inadequately treated, leaving nearly 40 per cent of older hypertensive people with cognitive malfunctions, even after treatment, it says.
Researchers at the Veterans' Affairs of Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Public Health looked at a subset of men in a study that started in 1963 adding neuropsychological tests in 1993.
This smaller cross-sectional study involved 357 men from the larger sample, averaging 67 years of age who did not have dementia or other serious medical problems and showed stable blood pressure over a three-year interval.
The study co-authors Christopher Brady, Avron Spiro III, and J. Michael Gaziano found that the older the men, the predictably lower their overall neuropsychological performance. However, older men in the sample with uncontrolled hypertension did significantly worse on specific tests of verbal fluency and immediate recall of a word list, short-term memory.
December 6, 2005
INDIA: Control Blood Pressure To Avoid Memory Loss in Old Age
KOTTAYAM, KERALA (Malayalam Manorama), December 6, 2005:
To avoid memory loss in old age, control your Blood Pressure! A new research suggests that uncontrolled hypertension puts people at higher risk for sharper drops in cognitive functions, says a report from Houston, USA.
The findings published in 'Neuropsychology' of the American Psychological Association, says that a substantial number of older people with uncontrolled hypertension will experience significant cognitive declines, especially because with age, hypertension becomes more common and harder to control.
The "silent killer" often goes undetected or inadequately treated, leaving nearly 40 per cent of older hypertensive people with cognitive malfunctions, even after treatment, it says.
Researchers at the Veterans' Affairs of Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Public Health looked at a subset of men in a study that started in 1963 adding neuropsychological tests in 1993.
This smaller cross-sectional study involved 357 men from the larger sample, averaging 67 years of age who did not have dementia or other serious medical problems and showed stable blood pressure over a three-year interval.
The study co-authors Christopher Brady, Avron Spiro III, and J. Michael Gaziano found that the older the men, the predictably lower their overall neuropsychological performance. However, older men in the sample with uncontrolled hypertension did significantly worse on specific tests of verbal fluency and immediate recall of a word list, short-term memory.
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