Investigation of antihypertensive class, dementia, and cognitive decline: A meta-analysis

Ruth Peters¹, Sevil Yasar², Craig S Anderson²+56

• ¹From Neuroscience Research Australia (R.P., K.J.A.); University of New South Wales (R.P., C.A., H.B., J.C., P.S.S., K.J.A.), Sydney, Australia; Johns Hopkins University (S.Y., M.C.C.), Baltimore, MD; The George Institute for Global Health (C.A., J.C.), Sydney, Australia; The George Institute China at Peking University Health Sciences Center (C.A.), Beijing, China; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (S.A.), New York, NY; Center for Life Course Health Research/Geriatrics (R.A., S.K.-K., S.S., E.V.), University of Oulu; Medical Research Center Oulu (R.A.), Oulu University Hospital; Oulu City Hospital (R.A.), Finland; Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (H.A.), Fukuoka University, Japan; Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (N.B.), London, UK; University of Pittsburgh (J.C.B., M.G.), PA; Leiden University Medical Centre (A.S.B., S.T.), the Netherlands; University of Sheffield (A.B., J.P.), UK; School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology (M.v.B., S.K.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands; University of Cambridge (C.B.), UK; University of California (M.C., C.K.), Irvine; University of Florida (S.D.), Gainesville; Albert Einstein College of Medicine (C.D., M.K.), New York, NY; University of Alberta (R.A.D., G.P.M.), Edmonton, Canada; International Longevity Centre (F.F.), Paris, France; University of Amsterdam (W.A.v.G., E.P.M.v.C.), the Netherlands; Golgi Cenci Foundation (A.G., R.V.), Milan, Italy; Trinity College Dublin (A.H., R.A.K.), Ireland; University of Calgary (D.B.H.), Canada; Newcastle University (C.J., B.C.M.S.), Newcastle upon Tyne; University of Bristol (P.G.K., S.K.K.), UK; University of Eastern Finland (J.L.), Kuopio; Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä (J.L.), Finland; School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo (C.M.), Ontario, Canada; Academic Medical Center (T.v.M., E.R.), Amsterdam; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (T.v.M., E.R.), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; National University of Singapore (T.-P.N.); Sengkang General Hospital (I.R.), Singhealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, Singapore; Dalhousie University (K.R.), Halifax, Canada; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy (L.R., I.S.), and Department of Psychology (J.S.), Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; University of Leuven (J.A.S., L.T.), Belgium; Bordeaux Population Health Research Center (P.J.T., C.T.), UMR 1219, CHU Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, Inserm, France; University of Adelaide (P.J.T.); Australian National University (E.W.), Canberra, Australia; and University of Warwick (J.W.), Coventry, UK. r.peters@imperial.ac.uk.+1