Heart Drugs may Reduce Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers have been looking into how altering blood pressure would help treat Alzheimer's Disease. Drugs such as anti-hypertensive drug propranolol HCl (Inderal), have known to prevent the beta-amyloid build up and are most commonly prescribed to treat high blood pressure. Researchers think that it is possible to find a concentration of the drug that would block the build up of beta-amyloid without affecting the blood pressure. If they are successful in finding this specific concentration of the drug that wouldn't affect the blood pressure, then this drug could be available to patients who are developing Alzheimer's Disease.


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