{"id":629366,"date":"2010-01-13T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/other-medications\/47579-arbs-may-help-prevent.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:00:44","slug":"arbs-may-help-prevent-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/629366","title":{"rendered":"ARBs May Help Prevent Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>ARBs Associated with Reduced Dementia and Alzheimer Disease Risk <br \/>\nAngiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) are associated with reduced risk for dementia and Alzheimer disease, according to a BMJ study.<br \/>\nResearchers analyzed Veterans Affairs records of 800,000 mostly male patients aged 65 and older with cardiovascular disease. Over the 4-year observation period, patients taking ARBs were less likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer disease, to be admitted to a nursing home, or to die than were patients taking the ACE-inhibitor lisinopril or other cardiovascular drugs, such as beta-blockers or calcium channel antagonists. Patients taking both ARBs and ACE-inhibitors saw a further risk reduction.<br \/>\nThe authors suggest that ARBs may protect against cognitive decline by limiting neuronal damage linked to stroke and vascular problems.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARBs Associated with Reduced Dementia and Alzheimer Disease Risk Angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) are associated with reduced risk for dementia and Alzheimer disease, according to a BMJ study. Researchers analyzed Veterans Affairs records of 800,000 mostly male patients aged 65 and older with cardiovascular disease. Over the 4-year observation period, patients taking ARBs were less likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DJ4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}