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By Daily Mail Reporter
Drugs that lower blood pressure may also reduce the risk of dementia.
New research shows that men and women on blood pressure medication are less likely to develop Alzheimer's than people of the same age who are healthy and do not take the drugs.
High blood pressure has long been thought to be a risk factor for the disease, but this latest research suggests the drugs have some sort of protective effect beyond just keeping blood pressure down.
Around 400,000 people in the UK suffer from Alzheimer's.
In the latest study, U.S. researchers carried out post-mortems on nearly 300 brains, and found substantially fewer symptoms of Alzheimer's in those who had been prescribed the medication.
Further research is now required to find out whether the drugs could reverse, or even prevent, dementia symptoms
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