Abstract

REQUENA HERNANDEZ, Carmen; GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ, Vicente  and  VILA ABAD, Enrique. Relation between cardiac and cognitive functionality indexes in old institutionalized persons. Gerokomos [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.4, pp.144-147. ISSN 1134-928X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1134-928X2014000400003.

Most recent data suggest that cardiac disfunction as quantified by cardiac output is related to cognitive performance. Objective: determine if cardiac functionality acts as predictor of cognitive function in old institutionalized persons with normal cardiac index. Method: Observational design with a sample of 30 subjects over 80 years old with medical history without cardiopathies. Results: Multiple regression analysis confirms the hypothesis with respect to the effect of cardiovascular risk and cardiac insufficiency variables, which together account for 95.1% of variance. However, there is a remarkable lack of correspondence between clinical cardiac-cognitive measures and the biological measure of cardiac index. Conclusions: Even if empirical data do not stablish a causal link, our results show that cardiac function with a normal cardiac index is associated with cognitive impairment.

Keywords : cardiac index; heart failure; cardiovascular risk; cognitive level; elderly.

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