Drugs widely used to cope with high blood pressure and heart disease are also able to reduce the risk of Alzheimer and other forms of dementia. Some people who use Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) for four years has decreased the risk of 19 to 24 percent of dementia compared to infected peers who use other drugs. Among convicted of Alzheimer’s patients in the early period of four years, only 50 percent of ARB users who need care at home at the end of the study period.

ARB is capable of blocking angiotensin, a molecule that makes the muscles in blood vessels to contract. As a result of the action of the drug, dilated blood vessels that relieve the blood pressure. ARB is more effective in providing protection against diabetes and stroke may be compared to other drugs. However, it’s the first time to see a defense against dementia. ARB real protection against dementia is clearly found among men who used the drug along with other medications for high blood pressure called barriers Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE).

Given as much as 36 million people worldwide suffer from some form of dementia, like Alzheimer’s, the amount will be doubled within the next 20 years, the benefits of prevention of this disease is very large. Age, heredity and heart disease are the main factors associated with dementia. There was also a factor of diabetes and high blood pressure in middle age.