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Could Anti-Hypertensives Be Used To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease?

October 29, 2007 by Kendra James, RN  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

Could Anti-Hypertensives Be Used To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease?

And yet another link to Alzheimer’s disease from another chronic disease process… It seems that anti-hypertensives have proven to benefit in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Such implications could aid in the ultimate cure and care of this dreadful mind altering disease. Just what anti-hypertensives made the list?
…significantly benefit from the treatment with the anti-hypertensive agent Valsartan, found to pharmacologically prevent beta-amyloid production in the brain even when delivered to Alzheimer’s disease mice at doses 3-4 fold lower than the minimal equivalent dose prescribed for the treatment of hypertension in humans. Other anti-hypertension drugs with beneficial …read more


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