Does an incident coronary heart disease event accelerate cognitive decline?
Incident coronary heart disease is associated with accelerated long-term cognitive decline, highlighting the need for cognitive monitoring in these patients.
Incident CHD is associated with accelerated cognitive decline after, but not before, the event. Attention should be drawn to the long-term cognitive deterioration related to CHD. Careful monitoring of cognitive function is warranted in CHD patients in the years following the event.
Xie et al. (Sat,) studied this question.