If you have high blood pressure, this is not good news.
, researchers have mapped how high blood pressure affects specific regions of the brain, unearthing the best evidence yet that the two conditions are indeed connected.
To eliminate any room for doubt, the researchers then double-checked their findings with a separate batch of patients in Italy. There is one nagging caveat, though: since most of the participants were white and middle-aged, the researchers note that it "might not be possible to extrapolate the findings to older people," according to the statement.
The researchers estimate that around 30 percent of the global population suffers from high blood pressure, which, based on their findings, puts a hefty helping of us at risk of dementia.
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