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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY
Volume 63, Issue 9, Pages 1749-1756Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13627
Keywords
mild cognitive impairment; blood pressure; Alzheimer's disease; hypertension; renin angiotensin system; cognition
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- NIA NIH HHS [U01 AG016976, K01AG042498, 5 P50 AG025688, P50 AG025688, K01 AG042498] Funding Source: Medline
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OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of modulation of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) on conversion to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the effect of the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and race on the potential relationship between the RAS and AD. DESIGN: Analysis of data from AD centers funded by the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, National Institute on Aging. SETTING: Alzheimer's Disease Centers. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals receiving antihypertensive medications who had MCI at baseline and had cognitive assessments on at least two follow-up visits (N = 784; mean age 75 l 48/% male). MEASUREMENTS: Conversion to AD and cognitive and functional decline. RESULTS: Four hundred eighty-eight participants were receiving RAS-acting antihypertensive medications. RAS-acting medication users were less likely to convert to AD (33% vs 40%; P = .04) and had slower decline on the Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes (CDR-SOB, P = .005) and Digit Span Forward (P = .02) than nonusers. BBB-crossing RAS-acting medications were associated with slower cognitive decline on the CDR-SOB, (P = .009), the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), (P = .001), and the Boston Naming test (P = .002). RAS-acting medications were associated with cognitive benefits more in African Americans than in Caucasians (MMSE, P = .05; category fluency, P = .04; Digit Span Backward, P = .03). CONCLUSION: RAS-acting medication users were less likely to convert to AD. BBB permeability may produce additional cognitive benefit, and African Americans may benefit more from RAS modulation than Caucasians. Results highlight the need for trials investigating RAS modulation during prodromal disease stages.
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