Amlodipine dementia drug trial at Queen's University Belfast is 'best hope'
Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/amlo
BY VICTORIA O'HARA – 04 December 2013
A groundbreaking new trial at Queen's University Belfast is investigating if a drug for high blood pressure – costing 4p per day – could become the first treatment for one of the most common forms of dementia.
Announcing the start of the £2.25m clinical trial yesterday, the Alzheimer's Society and the British Heart Foundation said they are hoping it could pave the way for an effective, affordable treatment within a decade.
The major two-year trial, run by experts at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's, is funded by the two charities. It will explore the effect an existing blood pressure drug called amlodipine has on people with vascular dementia.
The condition is caused by problems with the blood supply to the brain and affects more than 18,000 people in Northern Ireland and 150,000 in the UK....
Read more: the Belfast Telegraph
Dare we hope? May the researchers at Queen's University find success!!
If only the obscene amounts of money spent on war could be spent on finding cures for disease... sigh.
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