Blood Pressure, Antihypertensive Use, and Late-Life Alzheimer and Non-Alzheimer Dementia Risk: An Individual

Matthew J Lennon1, Darren M Lipnicki1, Ben Chun Pan Lam1

  • 1From the Faculty of Medicine and Health (M.J.L., D.M.L., B.C.P.L., J.D.C., P.S.S.), and Centre for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) (M.J.L., D.M.L., B.C.P.L., J.D.C., P.S.S.), Discipline of Psychiatry & Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney; School of Psychology and Public Health (B.C.P.L.), La Trobe University, Melbourne; The George Institute for Global Health (A.E.S., R.P.), Barangaroo; School of Biomedical Sciences (R.P.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; School of Public Health (R.P.), Imperial College London, United Kingdom; School of Population Health (A.E.S.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Unit (T.R.-S., J.N., I.S.), Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy, Centre for Ageing and Health (AGECAP) at the University of Gothenburg; Aging Research Center (T.R.-S.), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University; Region Västra Götaland (J.N., I.S.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Psychiatry, Cognition and Old Age Psychiatry Clinic, Gothenburg, Sweden; Section Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Aging (J.N.), Department of Clinical Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands; Institute of Social Medicine (S.G.R.-H., S.R., A.P.), Occupational Health and Public Health (ISAP), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Germany; School of Psychology (S.R.), Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand; Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) (S.R.), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Department of Medicine and Psychiatry (A.L., C.D.-l-C.), Universidad de Zaragoza; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón) (A.L., C.D.-l-C., E.L.), Zaragoza; CIBERSAM (A.L., C.D.-l-C., E.L.), Madrid, Spain; Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (E.L.), Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; Department of Neurology (R.B.L., M.J.K., C.A.D.), and Department of Epidemiology and Population Health (R.B.L., C.A.D.), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Department of Neuropsychiatry (K.W.K., J.W.H.), Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam; Department of Psychiatry (K.W.K., J.W.H.), Seoul National University College of Medicine; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (K.W.K.), Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences; Workplace Mental Health Institute (D.J.O.), Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Golgi Cenci Foundation (E.R., A.D., M.R.), Abbiategrasso, Milan; Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences (E.R.), University of Pavia, Italy; 1st Department of Neurology (N.S.), Aiginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Department of Neurology (N.S.), Columbia University, New York, NY; School of Health Sciences and Education (M.Y.), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University; Department of Neurology (T.D.), University Hospital of Larissa; Faculty of Medicine (T.D.), School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece; Department of Psychiatry (H.C.H.), Indiana University School of Medicine; Indiana Alzheimer Disease Research Center (H.C.H., S.G.), Indiana Alzheimer Disease Research Center; Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science (S.G.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Institut for Neurosciences of Montpellier INM (I.C., K.R.), University Montpellier, INSERM; Institut du Cerveau Trocadéro (K.R.), Paris, France; School of Psychology (K.J.A.), and Ageing Futures Institute (K.J.A.), University of New South Wales; Neuroscience Research Australia (K.J.A.), Sydney; National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (N.C.), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Department of Geriatric Psychiatry (S.X., L.Y., W.L.), Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Center (S.X., L.Y., W.L.), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Inserm U1094 (M.G., P.-M.P., V.A.), IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT-Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases in Tropical Zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, OmegaHealth, France; Laboratory of Chronic and Neurological Diseases Epidemiology (LEMACEN) (M.G.), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin; Department of Cardiology (V.A.), Dupuytren 2 University Hospital, Limoges, France; School of Medicine (M.N.H.), University of California, San Francisco; Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center (A.A.), Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY; Departamento de Psiquiatria (M.S.), Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Neuropsychiatric Institute (P.S.S.), Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Neurology
|August 14, 2024
PubMed
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