Higher blood pressure linked to brain shrinkage even in younger adults

New European research has found that even young people with blood pressure above normal may show signs of shrinkage in certain parts of the brain. Carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, the new study looked at 423 healthy adults between 19 and 40 years of age who completed MRI brain scans and at least one blood pressure reading. For this study, high blood pressure was defined as a reading above 140/90 millimeter of mercury and healthy blood pressure as less than 120/80 millimeter of mercury. The findings, published in the journal Neurology, showed that compared to people with normal blood pressure, t...

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