{"id":87145,"date":"2019-01-29T07:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lowering-blood-pressure-could-cut-risk-factor-for-dementia"},"modified":"2019-01-29T07:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:42:29","slug":"lowering-blood-pressure-could-cut-risk-factor-for-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lowering-blood-pressure-could-cut-risk-factor-for-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Lowering blood pressure could cut risk factor for dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lowering-blood-pressure-could-cut-risk-factor-for-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b data-type=\u201d sourceText\u201d>(CNN) \u2014 <\/b> Intensive lowering of blood pressure, to a less than 120 mm Hg level, can have a measurable impact on mild cognitive impairment (MCI) \u2014 a well-established precursor of dementia, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have suggested high blood pressure could be a risk factor for dementia and mild cognitive impairment, leading US researchers to explore whether lowering pressure could reduce this risk in a large randomized trial on more than 9000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Lowering blood pressure did not significantly reduce dementia risk, but the secondary results showed a significant reduction in MCI, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2723256?guestAccessKey=f288411d-ef32-4812-b5a6-7da27b17151f\" target=\"_blank\">according to the study<\/a> published Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition-m.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/29\/health\/intensive-blood-pressure-lowering-dementia-study-intl\/\">https:\/\/edition-m.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/29\/health\/intensive-blood-...tudy-intl\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 Intensive lowering of blood pressure, to a less than 120 mm Hg level, can have a measurable impact on mild cognitive impairment (MCI) \u2014 a well-established precursor of dementia, a new study finds. Previous studies have suggested high blood pressure could be a risk factor for dementia and mild cognitive impairment, leading US [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}