Heart Disease Is Linked To Worse Mental Processes That, In Turn, Predict The Onset Of Dementia
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 14:21
in Health & Medicine
Coronary heart disease is associated with a worse performance in mental processes such as reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency, according to a study of 5,837 middle-aged Whitehall civil servants published in the European Heart Journal. The study also found that the longer ago the heart disease had been diagnosed, the worse was the person's cognitive performance and this effect was particularly marked in men.