Healthy Heart When Young Leads to Healthier Brain Later

The results of a long-term study regarding participants whom researchers monitored from age 24 through age 54 found that those with a healthier heart at the start of the study performed better on memory and cognitive assessments three decades later. Study author Dr. Farzaneh Sorond writes, “We’ve known that vascular risk factors such as high blood pressure and high blood glucose levels are linked to cerebrovascular damage and problems with thinking skills in older people, but this study shows that these factors may be linked decades earlier and injury may start much earlier.” American Academy of Neurology, April 2020