Dementia is a major cause of disability in old age. Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia the leading cause of dementias. It has been known for long that people with high blood pressure ran a higher risk for dementia. Now researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that a group of blood pressure drugs called the centrally acting angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors …

Two Blood Pressure drugs, Enalapril and Losartan, were shown to slow down diabetes induced eye damage in more than 65% of the patients. This was found in a clinical trial funded by Merck and published in New England Journal of Medicine. The drugs Vasotec (enalapril) and Cozaar (losartan) were actually tried on diabetics to see if it can preventing worsening of kidney problems. The research …