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Data were collected from 2005 to 2024 from 20 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. BP measures included systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), and pulse pressure (PP). Brain outcomes included total, hippocampal, gray matter, and white matter hyperintensity volumes. Covariates included age, sex, Hispanic/Latino heritage, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, body mass index, hypotensive status, and smoking status.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      No BP measure was significantly associated with brain outcomes (all\n                      <jats:italic>p</jats:italic>\n                       &amp;gt; 0.05).\n                    </jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall, we found no relationships between BP measures and brain volumes in this sample of late middle-aged and older Hispanic/Latino adults. Our findings warrant longitudinal studies to better characterize the relationships between BP and other cardiovascular disease risk factors with brain health in this population.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>","journal":"Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience","year":2026,"id":610850,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1570695,"name":"Carlos E. E. 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