High Blood Pressure Can Damage at Early Age

High blood pressure can lead to many things including a brain injury and even to premature aging of the brain and that includes people who only have a slightly elevated reading.


Alzheimer’s Disease Center scientists at UC Davis are currently studying links between systolic blood pressure and indicators of different brain injury amongst adults who are middle age. Systolic blood pressure is the first of the two numbers in the reading and measures how much pressure the blood has on vessels as the heart beats.


The scientists, in their latest report, said there is a negative, subtle effect from high systolic blood pressure in white matter structural integrity of the brain and another negative effect that is similar for elevated blood pressure on the amount of grey matter inside the brain.


What that means is that by 40, a person’s brain that has hypertension or high blood pressure of at least 140/90 mm Hg. looks older by 7.2 years than the brain of an individual who has normal blood pressure. That is according to indicators of anatomy and brain function that were measured by the researchers.

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