{"id":6091,"date":"2025-08-14T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/high-blood-pressure-new-guidelines-add-dementia-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:04:16","slug":"high-blood-pressure-new-guidelines-add-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/high-blood-pressure-new-guidelines-add-dementia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering blood pressure reduces dementia risk, new guideline affirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A study in rural China demonstrating the power of intensive blood pressure control clinched the deal. The large, cluster-randomized controlled trial convincingly demonstrated that well-controlled blood pressure \u2014 below 130\/80 mm\u2009Hg \u2014 lowered the risk of dementia<\/a> by 15% and cognitive impairment by 16%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That was the solid evidence reviewers needed to form the foundation for a new guideline<\/a> from leading medical groups on how to treat high blood pressure, Dan Jones, chair of the guideline writing committee and a past president of the American Heart Association, told STAT. He called the study from China the first one to definitively show that rigorous lowering of blood pressure with a goal of below 120 systolic does decrease the risk of dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lowering blood pressure reduces dementia risk, new guideline affirms A study in rural China demonstrating the power of intensive blood pressure control clinched the deal. The large, cluster-randomized controlled trial convincingly demonstrated that well-controlled blood pressure \u2014 below 130\/80 mm\u2009Hg \u2014 lowered the risk of dementia by 15% and cognitive impairment by 16%.\u00a0 That was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2486,2362,1428,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiovascular-disease","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}