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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Diastolic Blood Pressure Variability in Later Life May Be a Key Risk Marker for Cognitive Decline |
Author: | Peters, R. Xu, Y. Eramudugolla, R. Sachdev, P.S. Cherbuin, N. Tully, P.J. Mortby, M.E. Anstey, K.J. |
Citation: | Hypertension, 2022; 79(5):1037-1044 |
Publisher: | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
ISSN: | 0194-911X 1524-4563 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ruth Peters, Ying Xu, Ranmalee Eramudugolla, Perminder S. Sachdev, Nicolas Cherbuin, Phillip J. Tully, Moyra E. Mortby, Kaarin J. Anstey |
Abstract: | BACKGROUND: There is an increasing awareness of the need to understand the interaction between long-term blood pressure patterns and their impact on the brain and cognition. METHODS: Our aim was to investigate the relationship between repeated blood pressure measures and change in cognitive performance over 12 years and imaging data at 12 years using a longitudinal population study. The data consisted of 2 cohorts, one midlife and one later life. Using linear regression, we examined the relationship between blood pressure (systolic, diastolic, change in blood pressure between visits, and visit-to-visit variability), change in cognitive performance and imaging at 12 years. RESULTS: Data on cognitive change were available in 1054 at midlife, baseline age 42.7 (SD 1.5) and 1233 in later life, 62.5 (1.5) years. Imaging data were available in 168 and 233, respectively. After adjustment for multiple comparisons greater diastolic blood pressure variability in later life was associated with a −1.95 point decline (95% CI, −2.89 to −1.01) on an attention-based task and a −0.42 point (95% CI, −0.68 to −0.15) decline in performance on a psychomotor task. A higher SD in diastolic pressure across follow-up was associated with greater white matter hyperintensity volume (%increase per 10 mm Hg increase in the SD [1.50 (95% CI, 1.16–1.94]). CONCLUSIONS: In a largely normotensive/mildly hypertensive population, our analyses reported no relationships between blood pressure and cognition in midlife but a potential role for diastolic blood pressure variability in later life as a risk marker for cognitive decline. This may indicate an at-risk period or a means to identify an at-risk population at the age where diastolic pressure is starting to decline. |
Keywords: | aging blood pressure cognition population white matter |
Rights: | © 2022 American Heart Association, Inc. |
DOI: | 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18799 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/229936 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/179839 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/179805 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/418039 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1002160 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1160373 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/157125 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/350833 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1196150 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.18799 |
Appears in Collections: | Medicine publications |
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