Relationship between baseline blood pressure and decline in Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) Word List Learning and Recall scores adjusted for age, sex, education, apolipoprotein E status, body mass index, history of stroke, and baseline scores. The horizontal axis represents participants grouped according to their blood pressure measures. The vertical axis displays the means and 95% confidence intervals of decline in the two CERAD scores, defined as the difference in scores between baseline and follow-up. Higher values on the vertical axis indicate greater cognitive decline.