Be careful, High Blood Could Weaken Memories

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

An American study says that people who have high blood diseases, especially those aged 45 years-an inclination turned out to have memory problems.

The study contained in the journal Neurology is the largest study of the link between high blood pressure and memory problems, which involved 20,000 people aged 45 years who have had strokes and are not.

Stroke has become one of the triggers memory problems. But the study found new facts that those who do not have a stroke but still at the level of high blood pressure also have a weakness in his memory.

Someone said high blood pressure if their blood pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg. And every increase of 10 points of the diastolic number (the numbers at the bottom), researchers found an increase in memory problems as much as 7 percent.

All factors such as age, smoking, exercise, education, diabetes and cholesterol had been taken into account in this study.

"By treating high blood properly, one can prevent brain damage and cognitive deficits that may trigger the dementia disease," said Dr.. Georgios Tsivgoulis from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, as reported by Reuters on Wednesday (26/08/2009).

Dr. Walter Koroshetz of the National Institutes of Health was trying to conduct a clinical trial to determine whether a person with lower blood pressure, memory problems and cognitive impairment in the brain can be overcome.

According to the American Heart Association, as many as one in three adults in America today is high blood attacked. Because the symptoms are not visible, then many people who have high blood unnoticed.

"These data suggest that high blood pressure is a factor of cognitive decline in the brain, but further study is needed to explain the causal relationship," said Walter.

High blood pressure is a trigger strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure. And if the blood is high causing memory problems, means a series of diseases caused by high blood pressure will increase the length.