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The question arises that what is the relationship between high blood pressure and dementia and why these two diseases that seems to be different diseases are sometimes spoken simultaneously in medical sciences?
High blood pressure is related to the pressure exerted by the blood against your blood vessels while on the other hand dementia is related to the brain functioning. Then how do these two different diseases are known to have a relation with each other.
But be aware that you are at an increased risk of dementia if you have high blood pressure.
What Is Dementia
The adverse effects of high blood pressure on our mental functioning have been verified in several medical studies.
Vascular dementia is primarily caused by high blood pressure, along with high cholesterol, and high levels of homocysteine in the blood can also contribute to this disease.
It is said that the brains of an individual with high blood pressure actually shrinks by as much as 20%, and any minute changes to the structures of your brain, researchers has pointed out, may have serious consequences.
On an MRI scanner the brain shows a white matter which is really the death of brain tissue due to atherosclerosis, and other problems with the brain's small arteries.
Dementia is a cognitive disease in which your intellectual functions has deteriorated and you begin to suffer slow or total memory loss.
Actually the latest research has revealed the fact that uncontrolled high blood pressure as one of the main causes of dementia in senior citizens, especially among women.
As times passes the signs of dementia are unavoidable and you are unable to perform your daily every day tasks.
As there is no cure for dementia as yet, the only alternative is to manage your high blood pressure and dementia might be avoidable.
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