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 New research suggests that intensive blood pressure treatment might slow — or even reverse — damage thought to contribute to dementia. Monkey Business Images / Shutterstock.com

Keeping your systolic blood pressure below 120 is good for your heart. New research suggests it also might protect your brain. A review of MRI brain scans indicates that treating high blood pressure more intensively — by keeping systolic pressure (the first number in a blood pressure reading) at less than 120 rather than below the standard treatment goal of 140 — created a positive change in the…

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