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01-12-2019 | Dementia | Editorial
Incident Dementia in Trials of Antihypertensive Treatments
Authors:
Timo E. Strandberg, A. Benetos, M. Petrovic
Published in:
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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Issue 10/2019
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Excerpt
The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) Memory and Cognition in Decreased Hypertension (MIND) study (
1), failed to show a significant effect on the primary endpoint (probable dementia, hazard ratio [HR] 0.83; 95% CI, 0.67–1.04). Because this may be due to limited power, the results of SPRINT MIND were put in the context of major randomised and controlled hypertension trials (RCT) in which incident dementia had been adjudicated. …