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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-20
pubmed:abstractText
Vascular pathology impairs cognition and impaired cognition increases the risk of dementia. Hypertension is arguably the vascular risk factor that can be reverted best. Here we estimated the effect magnitude of hypertension by determining the variance in cognition explained by systolic blood pressure (sBP) in non-demented community-dwelling individuals. We recruited 525 individuals (mean age 65, range 40-85) selected from the city registry of Muenster, Germany, measured cognitive performance with a comprehensive test battery and assessed vascular risk based on glycosylated hemoglobin, serum cholesterol, high sensitive C-reactive protein, body mass index, smoking pack years, and blood pressure. Including gender and education as well as the vascular risk factors, multiple linear regression analysis for different age groups showed that in midlife age groups systolic blood pressure explained up to 11% of the variance in cognitive performance. These findings suggest that in non-demented community-dwelling individuals hypertension may account for one tenth of cognitive impairment and thus for an increased risk for dementia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1878-5883
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
283
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
149-52
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
How much does hypertension affect cognition?: explained variance in cross-sectional analysis of non-demented community-dwelling individuals in the SEARCH study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 33, 48149 Muenster, Germany. knecht@uni-muenster.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't