A resident of the Las Vegas metropolitan area and seasoned real estate developer Thomas Jurbala oversees the development and acquisition of senior living communities for The Calida Group as its director of senior housing. Dedicated to contributing to his community, Thomas Jurbala of Las Vegas supports such organizations as the Alzheimer’s Association.
Dedicated to advancing research to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association recently published the results of a study in its Alzheimer’s & Dementia journal. According to the study, individuals have a lower risk of developing dementia if they develop high blood pressure later in life. Before this study, poor heart health and high blood pressure were thought to increase the risk of developing dementia. However, these new results suggest that hypertension can actually have the opposite effect.
This study was completed over the course of nearly three years by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. Researchers followed 559 individuals and looked for connections between the participants’ age of hypertension onset, blood pressure measurement, and onset of dementia. None of the participants had dementia at the time they enrolled, but 40 percent had developed dementia during the study’s follow-up period.
Based on the study’s results, individuals who had hypertension onset between the age 80 and 89 had 42 percent less chance of developing dementia after the age of 90. Meanwhile, hypertension onset after the age of 90 further decreased the risk of dementia. Compared to those who developed hypertension earlier on, these participants had 63 percent less risk.
