Study: High Blood Pressure in Adulthood Linked to Late-life Brain Structure Changes

Associations between blood pressure across adulthood and late-life brain structure and pathology in the neuroscience substudy of the 1946 British birth cohort (Insight 46): an epidemiological study – The Lancet Neurology (free)

Commentaries: Blood pressure control as an intervention to prevent dementia – The Lancet Neurology (free) AND Early blood pressure changes linked to poorer brain health – University College London (free) AND High blood pressure in mid-30s may pose risk to brain health – BBC (free) AND Blood pressure in our 30s and 40s has lasting impact on brain health – Medical News Today (free)

Related Study: Midlife to Late-Life Blood Pressure Patterns and Incident Dementia (link to abstract and commentaries)

Related Commentary on Twitter

Rising blood pressure in people as young as 36 is linked to markers of poorer brain health in later life, including blood vessel damage and brain shrinkage, finds a new study led by Prof Jonathan Schott @jmschott @UCLIoN @drcionucl @UKDRI @TheLancetNeuro https://t.co/fTZR8cdLlv

— UCL News (@uclnews) August 21, 2019