World Alzheimers Day-meta-analysis published showing blood pressure variability increases risk of dementia

Published online for World Alzheimers Day 21 September - FCMHW’s Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dr Phillip Tully and international collaborators publish a meta-analysis involving a dataset for nearly 8 Mi individuals that shows that not only hypertension, but also high variability in blood pressure is related to risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.

de Heus RAA, Tzourio C, Lee EJL, Opozda M, Vincent AD, Anstey KJ, Hofman A, Kario K, Lattanzi S, Launer LJ, Ma Y, Mahajan R, Mooijaart SP, Nagai M, Peters R, Turnbull D, Yano Y; VARIABLE BRAIN Consortium, Claassen JAHR, Tully PJ.
Association Between Blood Pressure Variability With Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Hypertension. 2021 Sep 20:HYPERTENSIONAHA12117797. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17797.
PMID: 34538105
Contact: Phillip Tully

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