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ArticleNeurology2025

Effect Modifiers of the Association of Blood Pressure With Brain Amyloid and Tau Pathology.

Wenjie Cai, Julia Neitzel, Lidia Glodzik, Deborah Blacker, Yuan Ma

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Article in Neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Recent developments and challenges in hypertensive dementia over the past year.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026
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5 authors.

Wenjie CaiDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0003-2377-9064
Julia NeitzelDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Lidia GlodzikDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Brain Health Imaging Institute, New York, NY; and.
Deborah BlackerDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0001-6107-7376
Yuan MaDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0002-0207-3620

Funding

Research Education ComponentP30AG062421 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Sudeshna Das · 2019 to 2026
$36.5M
Epidemiologic, imaging and pathological studies of the role of blood pressure variability in dementia etiologyR00AG071742 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI MA, YUAN · 2023 to 2025
$715k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG062421NIA NIH HHS R00 AG071742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesHypertension is an important modifiable risk factor of Alzheimer disease (AD), but previous studies reported heterogeneous associations of late-life blood pressure (BP) with brain amyloid and tau pathologies. We investigated how the associations of BP with brain amyloid and tau vary by

methodsWe performed analyses among participants with postmortem neuropathology measurements (2005-June 2022) from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center. The average systolic BP (SBP) of the first 3 annual visits was the primary exposure, and baseline hypertension status was the secondary exposure. Brain AD pathologies were assessed using Thal and Braak staging. Potential modifiers included

resultsAmong 2,094 participants (baseline age: 75 ± 9.5 years; 51.4% women), the association of higher SBP with higher amyloid and tau burdens varied by stroke history and cognitive status while the effect modification by age or DISCUSSION: Preexisting cerebrovascular burden and cognitive status might interact with elevated SBP in their association with higher brain amyloid and tau, which could help identify high-risk subgroups for BP management and AD prevention. These heterogeneous association patterns need to be confirmed in longitudinal studies with in vivo AD pathology assessments.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBlood PressureBrainHypertensiontau ProteinsAgedAged, 80 and overApolipoprotein E4FemaleHumansMaleRisk FactorsApolipoprotein E4tau Proteins

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PMID40014836
PMCPMC11874733

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