Your brain health may decline faster after a heart attack

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Having a heart attack is associated with a faster decline in brain health, according to international researchers who measured the cognitive function of over 30,000 adults over an average of 6.4 years. 1,033 participants had at least one heart attack during the study, and the researchers say while there was no association with a severe decrease in cognitive ability, those who had a heart attack saw greater declines in overall cognition, memory and executive function over the years of the study compared to those who didn't have a heart attack.

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conference: JAMA Neurology

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Organisation/s: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Funder: This study was supported by grant K23NS112459 from the NINDS (Dr Johansen); grants R01 NS102715 from the NINDS, NIH, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); RF1 AG068410 from the NIH; and R01 AG051827 from the NIA (Dr Levine); grant P30 AG024824 from the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center supported by the NIA (Dr Galecki); grant K01 AG050699 from the NIA (Dr Gross); grant P30 AG053760 from the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center supported by the NIA (Dr Giordani); and the NINDS Intramural Research program (Dr Gottesman).

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