Department of Cardiology, PRS Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, 695002, India.
J Hum Hypertens. 2019 Aug;33(8):568-574. doi: 10.1038/s41371-019-0205-z. Epub 2019 May 14.
Hypertension is regarded as a major contributor to vascular disease. Vascular disease is a fairly common denominator in a large percentage of cases of dementia. Despite this strong connecting link, dementia is often not considered as a mainstream problem consequent to hypertension, though there is an alarming increase in the number of cases of dementia. While established dementia has very few treatment options, prevention of development and slowing of progression of dementia by proper treatment of hypertension could be an important strategy, especially so, in a financially challenged Indian subcontinent with inhomogeneous health coverage. None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common-Laurie Graham.
高血压被认为是血管疾病的主要诱因。血管疾病在很大比例的痴呆病例中是一个相当常见的共同因素。尽管存在这种紧密的关联，但痴呆症通常不被认为是高血压的主要问题，尽管痴呆症的病例数量正在惊人地增加。虽然已经确定的痴呆症治疗选择非常有限，但通过适当治疗高血压来预防痴呆症的发展和减缓其进展可能是一个重要策略，特别是在财政困难的、医疗保障不均衡的印度次大陆。我们都不希望被提醒痴呆症是随机的、无情的，而且非常普遍——劳里·格雷厄姆。
