Aggressive Blood Pressure Controls Leads to Mental Decline

Individuals who suffer from high blood pressure are at higher risk of mental decline versus individuals who do not suffer from high blood pressure. The medical community has always felt that treating individuals suffering from high blood pressure with drugs will reduce their risk of mental decline as well as their risk of a stroke and heart attack.

This is proving to be a false hope based on recent research. The exact opposite may in fact be true; individuals who are aggressively treated with high blood pressure medications seem to be suffering greater mental decline as well as actual brain shrinkage.

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