Health: when hypertension weakens the brain

After age 50, one in three people have high blood pressure (hypertension)and one in two after age 60. For this study, Californian researchers followed, for some since the 1960s, a cohort of more than 400 thirtysomethings. “What we see is that those who are hypertensive have more significant lesions in key areas”reports journalist and doctor Damien Mascreton the set of 12/13, Tuesday April 18.

Effects on the brain

hypertension abyss the brain in two ways: “the best known is stroke, a hemorrhage in the brain. (…) But there is also something more insidiousit is the formation of small gaps, which gradually damage the brain”explains the doctor. Treatments reduce the risk. In France, around the age of 40, one person in ten hashypertension. Issueone out of two women and two out of three men are unaware of being hypertensive.

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