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Does orthostatic hypotension increase the risk of cognitive impairment and decline in community-living older adults?
Does orthostatic hypotension increase the risk of cognitive impairment and decline in community-living older adults?
Orthostatic hypotension is associated with increased odds of cognitive impairment specifically in hypotensive older adults, suggesting it may serve as an early comorbid marker of primary incipient dementia in this subgroup.
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OH associated with cognitive impairment only in hypotensives; hypothesis-generating for differential BP effects, needs prospective confirmation.
Yap et al. (2008) studied this question.
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