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His injury turned out to be a burst blood vessel, which meant the promising football player had to spend two months out of training, resting his leg and regularly applying ice until it healed.

Young adults spend an estimated six hours a day seated, and extended sitting is known to reduce how well blood vessels function.

About 2.7 million people in the U.S. are thought to have mixed dementia or vascular dementia, which is caused by strokes or mini-strokes that damage blood vessels in the brain.

A new preclinical study from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine reports that hypertension disrupts blood vessels, neurons and white matter in the brain long before blood pressure rises to detectable levels.

The wet form is less common but progresses more quickly and involves abnormal blood vessel growth under the retina.