Cumulative exposure to high blood pressure, especially starting earlier in life, increases the risk of dementia due to damage to small brain vessels.

“if you have early hypertension if you're young then you have hypertension it's possibly more harmful than if you have it later in life and I I guess it's just a question of duration if you have a sustained like if you have hypertension stain over many years because it can impact the stiffness of your blood vessels it will impact as we talk that the parasite function at some point”

“elevated blood pressure is not only going to increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases but it also significantly raises the risk of dementia later in life and what's the most important factor for that is the cumulative exposure to high blood pressure”

“what's the most important factor for that is the cumulative exposure to high blood pressure so the earlier in life you get high blood pressure the more the the risk you have of dementia later in life and this is because sustained high blood pressure can lead to damage in the small vessels of the brain and that impairs cognitive functions and potentially leads to conditions like dementia as a person ages”

“monitoring and managing blood pressure for from a young age I think is really important and can be crucial for mitigating these dementia risk these cardiovascular disease risk”