Mental abilities can depend on the pressure
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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At the moment, medicine knows that high blood pressure causes a decline in strength, permanent migraines and general discomfort. Recent studies have shown that brain activity and the mental abilities of a person can also depend on blood pressure.
It turned out that people with increased pressure, the brain reaction to external stimuli is a little slow, which, of course, affects the speed of perception and processing of information. Dependence of the brain and blood pressure interested specialists from Australia, who conducted a series of experiments aimed at studying the above pattern. About 500 people aged between twenty two and eighty years took part in the experiments. During the study, volunteers were busy passing various tests for intelligence and reaction speed.
The results showed the following: all people with high blood pressure showed significantly worse results than those people who did not have hypertension.
None of the participants before the testing did not accept prohibited drugs, drugs, alcoholic beverages, so the organizers can vouch for the purity of the experiment. No participant smoked tobacco immediately before the experiment, and none of the volunteers suffered from mental illnesses or abnormalities of mental abilities.
Volunteers who suffered from high blood pressure in the carotid artery showed the worst results in all possible test parameters. Those people who have seen increased pressure only in the brachial artery, showed poor results only in the tests for visual response.
Elevated blood pressure is an occasion to seriously think about your health. It is with him associated the greatest risks of myocardial infarction and the development of heart failure, the occurrence of stroke and vascular disease. Increased pressure can provoke disturbances in consciousness and perception, even cause blindness. Some experts call hypertension (high blood pressure) a quiet death. And indeed, many people for years do not suspect that their blood pressure is much higher than normal. Patients may feel headache, bouts of nausea, unreasonable anxiety, but not all associate these signs with blood pressure.
Statistics show that over the past few years the number of patients with high blood pressure increased several times. The opinions of the scientists were divided: some suggest that the increase in the number of patients is due to the fact that people are now beginning to monitor their health and apply to specialists before the onset of a critical moment. Others are convinced that ecology and a wrong way of life also could affect the growth in the number of patients. Scientists noted that the process of aging in a person suffering from high blood pressure begins 10-15 years earlier than in a healthy person.
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