Association of frailty with dementia and the impact of frailty on antihypertensive treatment protection against dementia in older hypertensive adults.

Background The relationship between frailty and dementia risk in hypertensive patients remains unclear, as does the impact of frailty on the effectiveness of antihypertensive treatment in preventing dementia. Methods Using data from the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program trial, a baseline...

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Published in:	Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors:	Chen, Linan, You, Shoujiang, Ee, Nicole, Rockwood, Kenneth, Ward, David D, Hubbard, Ruth E, Woodward, Mark, Fitzgerald, Oisin, Wang, Ruirui, Gao, Yijie
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Feb2026
Subjects:	United States Hypertension Blind experiment Randomized controlled trials Old age Dementia risk factors Dementia prevention Risk assessment Research funding Data analysis Statistical hypothesis testing Frail elderly Statistical sampling Antihypertensive agents Treatment effectiveness Mann Whitney U Test Descriptive statistics Odds ratio Statistics Dementia Confidence intervals Data analysis software Regression analysis Disease incidence Evaluation Disease complications
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