Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring–from silent to whispering brain damage

Figures & data

Table 1. Silent cerebrovascular disease.

(1) Silent brain infarcts

(2) Lacunes

(3) MRI vascular WMH (considered ischaemic white matter demyelination)

(4) Cerebral microbleeds

(5) Enlarged perivascular spaces

Figure 1. Relationship between abnormal 24-hour ABPM and whispering brain damage [9,10]–gliosis changes, lacunes microbleeds, silent brain infarcts, and accompanying brain atrophy on MRI.

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