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[25 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]

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 …