Year-by-Year Blood Pressure Variability From Midlife to Death and Lifetime Dementia Risk

Author:

den Brok Melina G. H. E.12,van Dalen Jan Willem12,Marcum Zachary A.3,Busschers Wim B.4,van Middelaar Tessa12,Hilkens Nina1,Klijn Catharina J. M.1,Moll van Charante Eric P.45,van Gool Willem A.5,Crane Paul K.6,Larson Eric B.67,Richard Edo15

Affiliation:

1. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Department of Neurology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

2. Department of Neurology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

3. School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle

4. Department of General Practice, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

5. Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

6. School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle

7. Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Seattle, Seattle

Abstract

ImportanceHigh visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (BPV) in late life may reflect increased dementia risk better than mean systolic blood pressure (SBP). Evidence from midlife to late life could be crucial to understanding this association.ObjectiveTo determine whether visit-to-visit BPV at different ages was differentially associated with lifetime incident dementia risk in community-dwelling individuals.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study analyzed data from the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, an ongoing population-based prospective cohort study in the US. Participants were 65 years or older at enrollment, community-dwelling, and without dementia. The study focused on a subset of deceased participants with brain autopsy data and whose midlife to late-life blood pressure data were obtained from Kaiser Permanente Washington medical archives and collected as part of the postmortem brain donation program. In the ACT study, participants underwent biennial medical assessments, including cognitive screening. Data were collected from 1994 (ACT study enrollment) through November 2019 (data set freeze). Data analysis was performed between March 2020 and September 2023.ExposuresVisit-by-visit BPV at ages 60, 70, 80, and 90 years, calculated using the coefficient of variation of year-by-year SBP measurements over the preceding 10 years.Main Outcomes and MeasuresAll-cause dementia, which was adjudicated by a multidisciplinary outcome adjudication committee.ResultsA total of 820 participants (mean [SD] age at enrollment, 77.0 [6.7] years) were analyzed and included 476 females (58.0%). A mean (SD) of 28.4 (8.4) yearly SBP measurements were available over 31.5 (9.0) years. The mean (SD) follow-up time was 32.2 (9.1) years in 27 885 person-years from midlife to death. Of the participants, 372 (45.4%) developed dementia. The number of participants who were alive without dementia and had available data for analysis ranged from 280 of those aged 90 years to 702 of those aged 70 years. Higher BPV was not associated with higher lifetime dementia risk at age 60, 70, or 80 years. At age 90 years, BPV was associated with 35% higher dementia risk (hazard ratio [HR], 1.35; 95% CI, 1.02-1.79). Meta-regression of HRs calculated separately for each age (60-90 years) indicated that associations of high BPV with higher dementia risk were present only at older ages, whereas the association of SBP with dementia gradually shifted direction linearly from being incrementally to inversely associated with older ages.Conclusions and RelevanceIn this cohort study, high BPV indicated increased lifetime dementia risk in late life but not in midlife. This result suggests that high BPV may indicate increased dementia risk in older age but might be less viable as a midlife dementia prevention target.

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Subject

General Medicine

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