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Midlife Hypertension and Dementia: The Shadow Link

  • by Miranda Do-Tran
1. Introduction 

America is getting older.

According to Woolf and associates, U.S life expectancy increased from 69.9 years to 78.9 years between 1959 and 2016 [1]. With increasing age comes an array of medical morbidities, including cardiovascular disease, malignancy (cancer), and what some would argue as the most debilitating, cognitive decline [2].

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