Key result
Antihypertensive therapy plus melatonin may reduce cognitive impairment in older hypertensive patients.
Why the study?
Hypertension is recognized as a contributing factor to cognitive impairments in older people, but the effects of hypotensive drugs on cognitive function require review.
The presented review of the literature examines the main issues of cognitive function in patients with high blood pressure. More than a quarter of older people have cognitive impairments, and hypertension is seen as a contributing factor to such disorders. An analysis of the effects of some hypotensive drugs on the cognitive functions of patients in this category is given. The findings suggest that effective hypotensive therapy reduces the incidence of cognitive impairment in given patient’s categories.
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Khamidov et al. (2019) conducted a review in Arterial hypertension and cognitive impairment. Antihypertensive therapy and melatonin was evaluated. Effective antihypertensive therapy and the addition of melatonin may reduce the incidence and progression of cognitive impairment in older patients with arterial hypertension.
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