Adults with this heart condition may have up to a 35% higher risk for dementia, according to new research.
, and because both stroke and AFib are linked to a higher dementia risk, it was important to investigate whether atrial cardiopathy is linked to dementia, the study authors said.
Clifford Kavinsky, MD, head of the Comprehensive Stroke and Cardiology Clinic at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, says more research would need to be done to show convincing evidence that atrial cardiopathy causes dementia. Kavinsky also wonders whether the results eliminated all patients with atrial fibrillation, which is already known to be linked to dementia, a point the authors acknowledge as well.
Preventing heart disease is important for a wide variety of reasons, Kavinsky notes, and one of the reasons is heart disease's connection to a decline in mental skills.
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