{"id":109646,"date":"2020-07-07T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/high-blood-pressure-may-lead-to-low-brain-volume"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:03:32","slug":"high-blood-pressure-may-lead-to-low-brain-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/high-blood-pressure-may-lead-to-low-brain-volume","title":{"rendered":"High Blood Pressure May Lead to Low Brain Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-blood-pressure-may-lead-to-low-brain-volume2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having hypertension in midlife (ages 40 through 60) is associated with elevated risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer\u2019s dementia later in life, even more so than having the so-called Alzheimer\u2019s gene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that cerebral vascular disease\u201d\u2014that is, hardening of the arteries inside our brain\u2014\u201cand cognitive decline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21388893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> travel<\/a> hand in hand,\u201d something I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/alzheimers-and-atherosclerosis-of-the-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> addressed<\/a> before. \u201cHowever, the independent association of AD [Alzheimer\u2019s disease] with multiple AVD [atherosclerotic vascular disease] risk factors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21388893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> suggests<\/a> that cholesterol is not the sole culprit in dementia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I discuss in my video <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/higher-blood-pressure-may-lead-to-brain-shrinkage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <b>Higher Blood Pressure May Lead to Brain Shrinkage<\/b><\/a>,<b> <\/b>one of the most consistent findings is that elevated levels of blood pressure in midlife, ages 40 through 60, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15639311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> associated<\/a> with elevated risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer\u2019s dementia later in life\u2014in fact, even more so than having the so-called Alzheimer\u2019s gene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having hypertension in midlife (ages 40 through 60) is associated with elevated risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer\u2019s dementia later in life, even more so than having the so-called Alzheimer\u2019s gene. \u201cIt is clear that cerebral vascular disease\u201d\u2014that is, hardening of the arteries inside our brain\u2014\u201cand cognitive decline travel hand in hand,\u201d something I\u2019ve addressed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}