High Blood Pressure Can Affect Thinking Ability in Some Children

High blood pressure Can affect the Brains Of some children and adolescents, a new study suggests. This article explains the key facts and context behind high blood pressure.

Key Facts About High Blood Pressure

Dr. Marc Lande and director of kidney specialist studies at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY have just announced that teenagers with high blood pressure are at risk of brain damage. set, thinking and some other neuropathy.

To get this conclusion, Marc Lande and his team conducted a research survey of over 150 children aged 10-18 years. Among them, half of the children and teenagers surveyed have high blood pressure. While the other half is normal blood pressure.

Photo source: Internet.

Why High Blood Pressure Matters

The team conducted comparative neurological tests, brain activity. and found that children with high blood pressure were able to record images, speech memory, processing speed, Communication is slower and lower than that of children with normal blood pressure.

At the same time, the researchers showed that children with high blood pressure often. Lose sleep, biological disorders On the body, and this may also be one of many factors that make these young people have memory, ability to record images, thinking activities are weaker than normal children.

'In the future, we want to go into more in-depth research on the relationship between hypertension and thinking brain and neuronal activity so that effective and scientific adaptive therapies can also be developed. for young people with high blood pressure too soon. '- Marc Lande said.

This research has just been published in Pediatrics.

Huynh Dung (According to UPI)