April 29, 2025 HealthDay (4/29) reports a study found that “an intensive blood pressure (BP) reduction intervention is effective for lowering the risk for all-cause dementia among individuals aged 40 years and older with untreated hypertension.” Researchers “randomly assigned 163 villages in rural China to a nonphysician community health care provider-led intervention and 163 villages to usual care to examine the effectiveness of BP reduction on dementia among 33,995 individuals aged 40 years and older with untreated hypertension.” They observed that “that the net reductions in systolic and diastolic BP were 22.0 and 9.3 mm Hg, respectively, over 48 months in the intervention group compared with usual care.” The study was published in Nature Medicine. (SOURCE: APA Headlines, April 30, 2025)