Hypertension and Brain Damage

Antonio Coca is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University Abat Oliba of Barcelona, Spain, Honorary Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Barcelona, and Former Head of the Hypertension & Vascular Risk Unit at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain. He is Past-Chair of Working Group on "Hypertension and the Brain" of the European Society of Hypertension, Executive Officer for Latin America Relationships of the European Society of Hypertension, and Past-Chair of the "Council on Hypertension" of the European Society of Cardiology.

• Preface.- 1. Burden of Neurological Disease Induced by Hypertension.- 2. Comorbidities often associated to brain damage in hypertension: Dyslipidemia.- 3. Cardiometabolic disease and brain damage.- 4. Lifestyle and brain damage in hypertension.- 5.    Comorbidities often associated to brain damage in hypertension: CAD, CKD and SAOS.- 6. Cerebral small vessels disease in hypertension.- 7. Pathophysiology of subclinical brain damage in hypertensioni: Large artery disease.- 8. Hypertension and Haemorrhagic stroke.- 9. Hypertension, Ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack.- 10. Imaging techniques for the detection and diagnosis of brain damage in hypertension.- 11. Therapeutic strategies to prevent first stroke.- 12. Management of high blood pressure in acute ischemic stroke.- 13. Management of High Blood Pressure in Intracerebral Haemorrhage.- 14. Management of blood pressure for endovascular stroke treatment.- 15.    Therapeutic strategies to prevent recurrent stroke.- 16. New drugs and interventions for stroke patients.- 17. Cerebrovascular disease in preeclampsia.- 18. Pathophysiology of cognitive decline and dementia in hypertension.- 19.    Detection of cognitive impairment and dementia in clinical practice.- 20. How to prevent cognitive decline and dementia in hypertension.