The new study investigated the effect of antihypertensive medications on cognitive impairment and dementia, determining that it is blood pressure reduction rather than the medications that lower risk of dementia. (sciencedaily.com)
They analyzed four types of antihypertensive drugs: beta blockers, diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi), and CCBs, and used Cox proportional hazard regression models to obtain hazard ratios for the association of the four types of medication with risk of pancreatic cancer. (aacr.org)
A total of 55,320 hypertensive patients underwent noncardiac surgery in Denmark between 2005 and 2011; baseline clinical characteristics were similar between the 14,644 patients treated with β - blockers and the 40,676 patients treated with other antihypertensive drugs. (sciencedaily.com)