Beware, High Blood Pressure Makes Quick Senile

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People in their 30s and 40s often feel it is too early to worry about the health symptoms such as high blood pressure. Make no mistake, a new study from the U.S. found that these conditions can not be ignored completely. Because high blood pressure in the age group turned out to actually accelerate the aging process of the brain.

The study, conducted by Charles Decarli, professor of neurology and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center at the University of California Davis (USC) and his colleagues is believed to be the first study to show that people are middle-aged can damage brain structures from high blood pressure due to damage Such usually only occur in the elderly who have experienced cognitive decline.

By observing high blood pressure levels from 579 participants in 2009, researchers were able to divide participants into one of three groups: normal blood pressure owners, prehipertensif and high blood pressure.

Then the participants underwent MRI scans and when the results were analyzed researchers found that the brains of participants who experienced high blood pressure is not healthy changes in her frontal lobe, including 9 percent of gray matter (brain tissue that serves as the central processing of information) that is smaller than the participants who normal blood pressure.

In other words, participants' brain but the 33-year-old with high blood pressure to the brain looks like 40-year-old participants with normal blood pressure.

That makes this study important is the high blood pressure is a killer in disguise because the sufferer will not have any symptoms until they experience a particular event such as a heart attack or stroke.

Other obstacles are the people who are included in the age group of the 30s and 40s tend to ignore the condition of high blood pressure because they experienced was at the peak of his career or a family focus.

That is why through the study of people are encouraged to regularly check their blood pressure, especially when they have risk factors for heart disease such as obesity, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, passive lifestyle or insulin resistance and diabetes.

Moreover, do not ever think you are too young to have high blood pressure and do something as soon as possible to mitigate them.

"People can continue to protect the health of the brain in old age by knowing and addressing high blood pressure as early as possible or at a young age, a time when you did not need to worry," said emaxhealth Decarli as quoted on Thursday (11/08/2012).

source:  emaxhealth Decarli