Sudden blood pressure drops associated with long-term dementia risk

Sudden blood pressure drops associated with long-term dementia risk:

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Orthostatic hypotension—low blood pressure when suddenly standing up—is associated with a 15 percent increase in a person’s long-term risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, according to a twenty-four year study of more than 6,000 people published this week in PLOS Medicine by Arfan Ikram and Frank Wolters from Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands, and colleagues.

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