High blood pressure may be potential risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease

Written by Peter Brown

A multidisciplinary panel of experts from the American Heart Association (Dallas, TX, USA) have potentially identified that chronic arterial hypertension in middle age may impair cognitive function and may act as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. The study, recently published in Hypertension, examined the impact of hypertension on cognition to assess the state of the knowledge, identify gaps and provide future directions. Dementia affects approximately 30–40 million people worldwide, a number expected to triple by 2050 due to an aging population and other contributory factors. An estimated 80 million people in the USA have hypertension and the brain is...

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