Key result
Cardiovascular disease is increasingly associated with cognitive impairment, requiring special approaches to patient management due to complex and interconnected long-term factors.
Why the study?
The long-term relationship and mechanisms linking cardiovascular disease with cognitive impairment and dementia are not fully understood, requiring special approaches to patient management.
Highlights the complex relationship between cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment, emphasizing the need for specialized patient management approaches.
May prompt joint cardio-neurologic assessment in overlapping cases; leaves open which interventions improve dual outcomes.
As life expectancy increases, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasingly associated with cognitive impairment and dementia. Cognitive impairment can be a complication of CVD, develop at the same time or earlier than CVD. Often, the preclinical period of neurodegenerative diseases accompanied by cognitive impairment lasts for decades and their relationship with CVD is not fully understood. Studies have to take into account a large number of factors that are often interconnected with each other, so the role and mechanisms of action of each of them in the long term is very difficult to prove. The combination of CVD and cognitive impairment requires special approaches to patient management.
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Boytsov et al. (2022) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment. Cardiovascular disease is increasingly associated with cognitive impairment, requiring special approaches to patient management due to complex and interconnected long-term factors.
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