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Cognitive impairment linked to increased risk of rehospitalization in heart failure patients – News-Medical.Net
Heart failure is an endemic disease affecting 250000 Swedes. Despite new treatments such as modern medicines and defibrillators, the mortality rate is still high and the prognosis worse than for certain cancers.
Heart failure is an endemic disease affecting 250000 Swedes. Despite new treatments such as modern medicines and defibrillators, the mortality rate is still high and the prognosis worse than for certain cancers.
A new study from Lund University in Sweden now shows a link between cognitive impairment and an increased risk for rehospitalization, or an early death, in heart failure patients.
Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University conducted the new study, published in the med…
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