Assessment of cerebral small vessel disease predicts individual stroke risk

So talk to your doctor on controlling it. I consider 'assessments' pretty worthless, do the research that prevents stroke!
Assessment of cerebral small vessel disease predicts individual stroke risk

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• An MRI study on third-generation participants in the Framingham Heart Study found evidence of structural brain abnormalities associated with higher systolic blood pressure even in early middle age.
• Note that fractional anisotropy, which has been linked to cognitive decline in the elderly, was decreased in participants with higher systolic blood pressures and was also independently associated with increasing age.

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