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Disease dementia
Phenotype C0020538|high blood pressure
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PubMedID- 20855090 Limited trial evidence suggests that lowering high blood pressure reduces the development of cognitive decline, vascular dementia and psd, although whether this relates to the magnitude of bp reduction or specific drug classes remains unclear.
PubMedID- 20305128 high blood pressure increases the risks of stroke, dementia, and neurocognitive dysfunction.
PubMedID- 23243502 Although the collective evidence appears to support a strong relationship between hypertension and the development of ad or vad [103], no definitive evidence has yet been presented that antihypertensive treatment is a preventive measure to cognitve decline or dementia in people with high blood pressure, and the mixed evidence obtained in the seven randomized clinical trials discussed above is a glowing example.

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