High blood pressure has long been regarded as a health concern. Now swings in blood pressure are getting attention from health researchers, too.
A new study published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension points out that older people whose blood pressure fluctuated over time were at greater risk of suffering from loss of brain function.
The study was observational, so it could not establish an exact cause-effect relationship between the two phenomena. But the connection between the two is plausible, according to comments the study’s lead author, Bo Qin, made in a press release.
