It should be damn easy for your doctor to find out, look at the bolded study leader, if s/he can't pick up the phone and find that person you have a doctor to fire.
http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20131024/common-blood-pressure-drugs-tied-to-lower-risk-of-alzheimers-study
Although it remains unclear exactly how drugs such as ACE inhibitors
or diuretics might protect the brain, researchers say these new
findings could lead to a better understanding of Alzheimer's and new
treatments to slow or delay the progression of the memory-robbing
disease.
"We found a risk reduction by 50 percent. That tells
you there must be something there," said study leader Dr. Sevil Yasar,
an assistant professor of medicine in the department of geriatric
medicine and gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
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