Exercise and cognitive training to improve neurocognitive outcomes in patients with heart failure: can cardiac rehabilitation deliver?

Heart failure (HF) affects approximately 6.6 million Americans with over 660,000 newly diagnosed cases and 280,000 deaths annually. It is also the leading cause for hospitalization among Medicare patients and remains the only major cardiovascular disease whose mortality rate has remained essentially unchanged over the past decade.1 Frequently contributing to the significant clinical burden of the disease is mild to moderate cognitive impairment (MCI), which is estimated to be present in over one-quarter of community-dwelling HF patients.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Invited Perspective Source Type: research