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Even in young adults, blood pressure above normal may be linked to brain shrinkage
For people in their 20s and 30s, having blood pressure above normal but below the level considered to be high blood pressure may be linked to loss of brain volume. “Previously the assumption has been that brain damage related to high blood pressure results over years of evident disease, but our study suggests that subtle changes in the brain's gray matter can be seen in young adults who have never been diagnosed with high blood pressure,” said study author Arno Villringer, MD, of Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.
Schaare HL, Kharabian Masouleh S, Beyer F. Association of peripheral blood pressure with gray matter volume in 19- to 40-year-old adults. Neurology 2019; doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000006947
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Automated seizure detection accuracy for ambulatory EEG recordings
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