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Study Identifies Ways to Improve Cognitive Dysfunction
Cognitive dysfunction is a frequent finding among older patients with cardiac disease. Also, disability is a common condition in heart failure, poorly responding to commonly used cardiovascular medications. A recent study explored the association between cognitive dysfunction and disability was assessed in 1583 patients with heart failure, but without cerebrovascular disease, previous stroke, or Alzheimer's disease, who were enrolled during 2 years of a multicentre pharmacoepidemiology survey.
The association between groups of variables and functional was analyzed. Cognitive dysfunction in patients with heart failure is independently associated with disability, which currently represents an overwhelming medical and financial problem to patients, caregivers, and public health services. As early recognition and treatment of low cardiac output states might reverse cognitive dysfunction, cost effective treatment for heart failure should include systematic diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to cognitive dysfunction.
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