Common BP Drugs Tied to Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

Ask your doctor if this 50% reduction is enough to offset your 33% chance of developing Dementia/Alzheimers after a stroke.?  
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.