This is Satoshi Yamaguchi, the director. My parents' home is in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, and my 100-year-old grandmother lives there.
As of August 2020, she is actively playing the piano, singing, doing math drills, and eating meat.
She is the oldest patient I have ever treated.
When I look at my grandmother, I see that she laughs a lot and eats a lot.
And blood pressure control is very good.
blood pressure and dementia
There are many studies reporting the relationship between blood pressure and dementia.
In a study reported in Hypertension in 2021 by Lee et al.
Systolic blood pressure is 120-130mmHg in both vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
The risk is low.
(Sorry, I've summarized the resulting data in order to keep things concise.)
Summary
I hope everyone stays healthy and lives a long life.
My 100-year-old grandmother takes a lot of medicine.
Every day, I smile, open my mouth wide after eating, and take the medication all at once.
Thinking of my grandmother taking oral medication, the values in her blood pressure notebook, and my grandmother singing while playing the piano.
(I can't get Hatopoppo's singing voice out of my head...)
I am prescribing antihypertensive medication.
References
- Lee, C. J., Lee, J.-Y., Han, K., Kim, D. H., Cho, H., Kim, K. J., Kang, E. S., Cha, B.-S., Lee, Y.-H., & Park, S. (2022). Blood pressure levels and risks of dementia: A nationwide study of 4.5 million people. Hypertension, 79(1), 218–229.