Journal article
Contributors to cognitive impairment in congestive heart failure: a pilot case-control study
C Beer, E Ebenezer, S Fenner, NT Lautenschlager, L Arnolda, L Flicker, OP Almeida
Internal Medicine Journal | WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC | Published : 2009
Abstract
Background: Cognitive impairment and heart failure are both serious health problems related to population ageing. Impaired cognitive function is an important but underrecognized complication of congestive heart failure (CHF). The aim of the study was to examine the sociodemographic, clinical, neuroimaging and biochemical parameters affecting cognition in CHF. Methods: Thirty-one patients with CHF (left-ventricular ejection fraction < 40%) and 24 controls without CHF, all free of clinically significant cognitive impairment, participating in a case-control study were assessed using a cognitive battery (CAMCOG), a depression scale, 6-min-walk test, left-ventricular ejection fraction, semi-quant..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Funding Acknowledgements
The study was supported by a project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (project number 403996).