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ReviewTranslational psychiatry2012

Antihypertensives for combating dementia? A perspective on candidate molecular mechanisms and population-based prevention.

M Valenzuela, M Esler, K Ritchie, H Brodaty

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Review in Translational psychiatry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Chronic arterial hypertension impedes glioma growth: a multiparametric MRI study in the rat.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2015
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  4. Review
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  6. If Human Brain Organoids Are the Answer to Understanding Dementia, What Are the Questions?The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

M ValenzuelaRegenerative Neuroscience Group, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
M Esler
K Ritchie
H Brodaty

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related increases in prevalent dementia over the next 30-40 years risk collapsing medical resources or radically altering the way we treat patients. Better prevention of dementia therefore needs to be one of our highest medical priorities. We propose a perspective on the pathological basis of dementia based on a cerebrovascular-Alzheimer disease spectrum that provides a more powerful explanatory framework when considering the impact of possible public health interventions. With this in mind, a synthesis of evidence from basic, clinical and epidemiological studies indeed suggests that the enhanced treatment of hypertension could be effective for the primary prevention of dementia of either Alzheimer or vascular etiology. In particular, we focus on candidate preventative mechanisms, including reduced cerebrovascular disease, disruption of hypoxia-dependent amyloidogenesis and the potential neuroprotective properties of calcium channel blockers. Following the successful translation of large, long-term and resource-intense trials in cardiology into improved vascular health outcomes in many countries, new multinational prevention trials with dementia-related primary outcomes are now urgently required.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseAntihypertensive AgentsBrainBrain IschemiaCalcium Channel BlockersCardiovascular DiseasesCerebral VentriclesDementia, VascularDouble-Blind MethodHumansHypertensionNeuroprotective AgentsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRisk FactorsAntihypertensive AgentsCalcium Channel BlockersNeuroprotective Agents

Identifiers

PMID22832907
PMCPMC3337069

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