The New York Times (10/17, Bakalar) reports, “Having pre-eclampsia – dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy – is linked to an increased risk for dementia later in life,” research indicated.
MedPage Today (10/17) reports the condition is particularly tied to “vascular dementia, later in life,” researchers concluded in an analysis involving “over one million women over a median of 21 years.” The findings were published online in the BMJ. The authors of an accompanying editorialobserved, “What the study endorses is some commonality between preeclampsia and vascular dementia: both are propagated by preexisting cardiovascular risk factors and have a pathogenesis that targets blood vessels – something not seen with the Alzheimer’s variant of dementia, for example.” HealthDay (10/17, Thompson) also covers the study.
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— “High Blood Pressure of Pregnancy Tied to Dementia Later in Life, “Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times, October 17, 2018.