Published online before print October 4, 2004, doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000145857.98904.20
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(Hypertension. 2004;44:625.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.
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The Association Between Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Cerebral White Matter Lesions
Cardiovascular Determinants of Dementia Study
From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (E.J.D., M.M.B.B., M.d.R., L.J.L., A.H.), Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Neurology (R.S.), Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria; Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine (K.B.), University of Muenster, Germany; Department of Psychology (L.-G.N.), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Radiology (M.O.), University Hospital Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology and Population Studies (A.P.), Institute of Public Health Jagiellonian University Medical School, Kraków, Poland; Institute of Health Studies (S.S.), Department of Health and Social Security, Barcelona, Spain; INSERM Unit 360 (C.D.), Epidemiological Research in Neurology and Psychopathology, Hopital La Salpetriere, Paris, France; Department of Epidemiology (R.F.), Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada Medicine (Formerly with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK); Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (S.G.), Rome, Italy; Laboratory of Epidemiology (L.J.L.), Demography, Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Md.
Correspondence to Prof M.M.B. Breteler, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, PO Box 1738, 3000DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail m.breteler{at}erasmusmc.nl
Cerebral white matter lesions are frequently observed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in elderly people and are associated with stroke and dementia. Elevated blood pressure is presumed one of the main risk factors, although data are almost exclusively derived from cross-sectional studies. We assessed in 10 European cohorts the relation between concurrently and previously measured blood pressure levels, hypertension, its treatment, and severe cerebral white matter lesions. In total, 1805 nondemented subjects aged 65 to 75 years were sampled from ongoing community-based studies that were initiated 5 to 20 years before the MRI. White matter lesions in the periventricular and subcortical region were rated separately using semiquantitative measures. We performed logistic regression analyses adjusted for potential confounders in 1625 people with complete data. Concurrently and formerly assessed diastolic and systolic blood pressure levels were positively associated with severe white matter lesions. Both increases and decreases in diastolic blood pressure were associated with more severe periventricular white matter lesions. Increase in systolic blood pressure levels was associated with more severe periventricular and subcortical white matter lesions. People with poorly controlled hypertension had a higher risk of severe white matter lesions than those without hypertension, or those with controlled or untreated hypertension. Higher blood pressure was associated with an increased risk of severe white matter lesions. Successful treatment of hypertension may reduce this risk; however, a potential negative effect of decreasing diastolic blood pressure level on the occurrence of severe periventricular white matter lesions should be taken into account.
Key Words: hypertension • stroke • dementia • epidemiology • ischemia • aging
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