Why the study?
Previous studies on coronary heart disease and cognitive deficits examined only a subset of cognitive abilities and relied on small clinical samples.
Coronary heart disease negatively impacts multiple cognitive domains, highlighting the need for preventive strategies to preserve cognitive function in this population.
May warrant cognitive monitoring in CHD; hypothesis-generating for causal confirmation and prevention trials.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the main cardiovascular diseases that can cause disability and death across the globe. Although previous research explored the links between CHD and cognitive deficits, only a subset of cognitive abilities was analyzed and a small clinical sample size was used. Thus, the aim of the current study is to assess how CHD can affect the cognitive domains of episodic memory, semantic verbal fluency, fluid reasoning, and numerical ability in a large cohort of participants from the United Kingdom. Results revealed that episodic memory, semantic verbal fluency, fluid reasoning, and numerical ability are negatively affected by CHD. Prevention and intervention should be developed to preserve cognitive abilities in people with CHD, but more studies should explore specific ways of doing so.
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