Open AccessLow Diastolic Pressure and Risk of Dementia in Very Old People: A Longitudinal Study
Author(s) -
Chengxuan Qiu,
Bengt Winblad,
Laura Fratiglioni
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1421-9824
pISSN - 1420-8008
DOI - 10.1159/000236913
Subject(s) - dementia , hazard ratio , blood pressure , medicine , confidence interval , confounding , cohort , cohort study , risk factor , alzheimer's disease , diastole , proportional hazards model , cardiology , disease
Midlife high blood pressure is linked to late-life dementia. We sought to investigate the temporal relation of blood pressure to the risk of dementia and Alzhei-mer's disease (AD) among older adults.
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