Cerebral Microbleeds Are a Marker of Hypertensive Target Organ Damage

"In patients with chronic hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy is correlated with cerebral microbleeds, according to a study in the July 13th issue of Neurology. Researchers from Seoul write that cerebral microbleeds, which are detected by MRI as small areas of signal loss, are known to be associated with both hemorrhage-prone microangiopathy and chronic hypertension."