High blood pressure damages the brain in early middle age

Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Uncontrolled high blood pressure damages the brain's structure and function as early as young middle-age, and even the brains of middle-aged people who clinically would not be considered to have hypertension have evidence of silent structural brain damage, a study has found.

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