Place of arterial hypertension in brain lesion development - from minor cognitive disorders to dementia

Abstract

He problem of cognitive impairment in patients with somatic diseases today occupies a leading position, as it represents one of the most widespread manifestations of organic brain damage. The role of arterial hypertension(AH) in the formation of cognitive impairment (CI) has been shown in large epidemiological studies. CI detected in 73% of patients of both middle and senior age with hypertension duration of more than 5 years. Early detection of potentially treatable cognitive disorders is one of the most important tasks of the modern practitioner, cardiologist, endocrinologist, family doctor, as the patients in the early stages of CI constitute the majority of people seeking help. In today's world, primary care physicians' actions are often crucial in the prediction of dementia, since the detection of early forms of non-dementia CI and timely and adequate treatment of cardiovascular disease, especially hypertension, is often enough for the severity of the CI patients was significantly decreased, and dementia never came.