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Uncontrolled high blood pressure can result in a greater risk for cognitive decline or dementia as well as cardiovascular disease. More than half of all Americans experience hypertension by the ...
Role of high blood pressure in cognitive decline. ... High blood pressure can cause cerebral small vessel ... The study consisted of 682 individuals over 40 years of age enrolled in the ...
“High blood pressure can damage blood vessels in the brain, leading to vascular issues that increase dementia risk,” says Smita Patel, D.O., FAASM, a board-certified neurologist with Endeavor ...
In terms of environmental factors, dietary salt intake is the leading risk factor in the development of hypertension. [7] Salt sensitivity is characterized by an increase in blood pressure with an increase in dietary salt and is associated with various genetic, demographic, and physiological factors— African American populations, postmenopausal women, and older individuals carry a higher ...
Repeated injury can cause progressive dementia over time, while a single injury located in an area critical for cognition such as the hippocampus, or thalamus, can lead to sudden cognitive decline. [75] Elements of vascular dementia may be present in all other forms of dementia. [76]
The impairment of cerebral blood flow that underlies hypertensive encephalopathy is still controversial. Normally, cerebral blood flow is maintained by an autoregulation mechanism that dilates arterioles in response to blood pressure decreases and constricts arterioles in response to blood pressure increases. This autoregulation falters when ...
Older Black men with fluctuating blood pressure appear to have a more ... Black people with fluctuating blood pressure face higher cognitive decline risk ... or persists at a high level over time ...
[18] [19] [20] High blood pressure affects 33% of the population globally. [9] About half of all people with high blood pressure do not know that they have it. [9] In 2019, high blood pressure was believed to have been a factor in 19% of all deaths (10.4 million globally). [9] Video summary