Could hypertension drugs help people with Alzheimer's?
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
Within the next 20 years it is expected the number of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will double from its current figure of half a million to one million. A new study has looked at whether certain types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure, also called hypertension, might have beneficial effects in reducing the number of new cases of Alzheimer's disease each year.