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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Dement.
Sec. Aging and Risk Factors for Dementia
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frdem.2024.1486147
This article is part of the Research Topic Lifestyle and Healthy Aging to Prevent Cognitive Decline and Dementia View all 18 articles

Characteristics of Hypertension and its Impact on cognitive functions in Older Adults: A cross-sectional study

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Nivedita Parandiyal Nivedita Parandiyal 1Porimita Chutia Porimita Chutia 1Shashank S. Sinha Shashank S. Sinha 1Pratyaksha Pandit Pratyaksha Pandit 1NAIF ALI A MAJRASHI NAIF ALI A MAJRASHI 2Naseem A. Qureshi Naseem A. Qureshi 3Shailendra M. Tripathi Shailendra M. Tripathi 1*
  • 1 King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India
  • 2 Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
  • 3 Al-Falah University, Faridabad, Haryana, India

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    Background: Hypertension is a potentially modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline.Understanding the variables of hypertension related to cognitive functions will help in mitigating the risk.The study aims to assess the characteristics of hypertension and its effect on cognitive functions in the older adults.The study involved 95 hypertensive participants aged 60 years and above from cardiology and medicine outpatient services of a tertiary care hospital from August to October 2022. The characteristics of hypertension and cognitive functions were assessed using semistructured proforma and Adenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE-III) Hindi version respectively. Further, individual cognitive functions were compared with duration of the hypertension and hypertensive status of the participants. The chi-square test and independent ttests were used and p value < 0.05 was considered to be significant.The mean age of the study population was 68.2 years, the cognitive functions was comparable in terms of age, sex, locality, co-morbidity, and treatment characteristic. Although a significant difference in cognitive functions was present in relation to duration and status of hypertension. Among the individual cognitive domains, a significant difference was observed in attention and fluency domains of cognitive function based on HTN status (p > 0.05) but differential effect on cognitive domains was not seen with the duration of HTN. However, there was overall decline in cognitive domains with both hypertension status and the duration of hypertension.The study highlights association of status of hypertension and its characteristics with cognitive decline.

    Keywords: Hypertension, cognitive functions, Cognition, older adults, late life

    Received: 25 Aug 2024; Accepted: 05 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Parandiyal, Chutia, Sinha, Pandit, MAJRASHI, Qureshi and Tripathi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Shailendra M. Tripathi, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

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