Evaluating when (and how) hypertension may be 'good for your brain'

Shino D Magaki; Harry V Vinters

doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcad127

Evaluating when (and how) hypertension may be 'good for your brain'

Brain Commun. 2023 Apr 18;5(2):fcad127. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad127. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Shino D Magaki¹, Harry V Vinters^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Department of Neurology, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
³ Brain Research Institute, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Abstract

This scientific commentary refers to 'Elevated late-life blood pressure may maintain brain oxygenation and slow amyloid-β accumulation, at the expense of cerebral vascular damage', by Tayler et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad112).