Brain small-vessel disease linked to cognitive impairment
Finger points at abnormal white matter
7th February 2019
Increasing MRI evidence of cerebral small-vessel disease is associated with worsening cognition in patients with hypertension, according to findings from a longitudinal study.
"Five out of 10 patients with hypertension experience a progression of brain vascular lesions — and especially white matter hyper-intensities (WMH) — despite being treated with blood pressure-lowering drugs," said Dr Joan Jimenez-Balado from Vall Hebron Research Institute, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
"Moreover, we
