Why the study?
Does midlife hypertension and elevated midlife systolic blood pressure increase the risk of cognitive decline over 20 years?
Population
Individuals assessed for midlife and late-life blood pressure and cognitive change over 20 years, including…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
20 years
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Midlife BP monitoring may aid cognitive risk stratification; leaves open causal confirmation and race-specific effects in trials.
Does midlife hypertension and elevated midlife systolic blood pressure increase the risk of cognitive decline over 20 years?
Midlife hypertension and elevated midlife systolic blood pressure are associated with long-term cognitive decline, highlighting the importance of midlife blood pressure control.
Gottesman et al. (2014) studied this question.
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