The double blinded placebo-controlled randomised trial (where participants and doctors don’t know what treatment people are on) investigated whether losartan, compared with a placebo, could reduce brain volume loss, as a measure of disease progression, in people clinically diagnosed with established AD.
The research, published in The Lancet Neurology and NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, is the first to evaluate the potential benefit of losartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, which is a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, in clinically diagnosed AD using brain imaging as a primary outcome.