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Emerging epidemiological evidence indicates an independent effect of atrial fibrillation on the development of cognitive dysfunction.
This review highlights atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for cognitive dysfunction and emphasizes the importance of early detection and comprehensive management, including appropriate anticoagulation.
AF independently linked to cognitive dysfunction; leaves open optimal anticoagulation and prevention strategies for prospective study.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and cognitive dysfunction - common states with similar risk factors. Recently significant scientific epidemiological data has been received in favor of independence of effect of AF on possibility of development of cognitive dysfunction. In this review we present problems of prevalence, pathogenesis, and diagnostics of various variants of cognitive disorders at the background of AF, as well as methods of their prevention and tactics of anticoagulant therapy in the presence of cognitive disturbances.
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