Associations of Arterial Thickness, Stiffness, and Blood Pressure With Brain Morphology in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Population-Based Study.
Serena DefinaCarolina C V SilvaCharlotte A M CecilHenning TiemeierJanine F FelixRyan L MuetzelVincent W V JaddoePublished in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) (2023)
Arterial blood pressure, but not intima-media thickness and distensibility, is associated with structural neuroimaging markers in early adolescence. Volumetric measures may be more sensitive to these early arterial health differences compared with microstructural properties of the white matter, but further studies are needed to confirm these results and assess potential causal mechanisms.