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SUBMITTER: Power MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980244 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20160429 8
<h4>Introduction</h4>The impact of blood pressure on brain volumes may be time-dependent or pattern-dependent.<h4>Methods</h4>Of 1678 participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study, we quantified the association between measures and patterns of blood pressure over three time points (∼24 or ∼15 years prior and concurrent with neuroimaging) with late life brain volumes.<h4>Results</h4>Higher diastolic blood pressure ∼24 years prior, higher systolic and pulse pressur ...[more]