Elevated blood pressure variability (BPV) is associated with lower cognitive scores in older adults. That link is more profound in older, Black adults, according to a new study. Anisa Dhana, PhD, a ...

DALLAS, TX — Visit-to-visit variation in systolic blood pressure (BP) and mean heart rate (HR) are both independently related to cognitive dysfunction and decline in patients at high cardiovascular ...

Even when blood pressure is well controlled, older adults whose blood pressure fluctuates widely from one heartbeat to the next may be at greater risk for brain shrinkage and nerve cell injury, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Greater blood pressure variability over time was linked to lower cognitive scores in older adults. The link ...

A recent Scientific Reports study assessed whether clinically derived measures of heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pressure variability (BPV) are associated with the manifestation of Alzheimer’s ...

High blood pressure is a known cardiovascular risk factor for cognitive function. In the current study, researchers investigated the link between visit-to-visit blood pressure variability and ...

Spontaneous fluctuations of blood pressure from visit to visit have usually been disregarded as a trivial factor that confounds the 'true' associations of an individual's long-term average blood ...

Introduction Frailty is a common condition in older hypertensive adults with and is associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes. Blood pressure variability (BPV) is as an independent ...

Recent research has identified a novel DNA region tied to frailty and found that nocturnal blood pressure variability correlates with frailty in older hypertensive adults. These findings, alongside ...

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