Background: Hypertension and dementia increase parallel to age. Objective: The purpose of this study was to study the effect of hypertension on cognition before agerelated cognitive impairment begins to set in. Methods : In this prospective, cross-sectional study conducted at a tertiary-care centre between May 2014 and December 2015, 300 (150 hypertensives and 150 normotensives) participants were compared. Patients were divided into groups according to age, gender, education, and duration of hypertension.
The Hindi Mini-Mental State Examination (HMMSE) was used to detect cognitive impairment. Results: Overall, occurrence of cognitive impairment was 53 (35.3%) in hypertensives and 37 (24.7%) in normotensives. Below 60 years male and female hypertensives and normotensives had comparable mean HMMSE scores, although not statistically significant. Sixty years and above male and female…
