Abnormal heart rhythm linked to cognitive decline.
A large UK study has linked abnormal heart rhythm to cognitive decline, which is the latest in a growing body of evidence suggesting that there is a significant correlation between common heart conditions and the risk of dementia.
Researchers utilized the UK's primary electronic health records database to identify over 200,000 people with AFib and over 200,000 without it.
In taking other comorbidities into account, the researchers found a 45% increased likelihood of developing mild cognitive impairment in the cohort with new diagnoses of the heart condition who were without medical treatment for it. Other factors such as sex and/or conditions like depression were also found to impact risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
“Our study showed that AF was associated with a 45% increase in the risk of MCI, and that cardiovascular risk factors and multi-comorbidity appear to associate with this outcome,” said senior author Dr Rui Providencia, professor at the Institute of Health informatics Research at UCL. (Thompson, 2023)
This study comes after a study conducted in 2019 in South Korea finding the same results.
AF is the most common type of treated arrhythmia and can be characterized by a heart that beats too slowly, too fast, or simply irregularly.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 12.1 million Americans are expected to suffer from this condition by 2030. While case numbers increase with age, more women develop AF largely because they, as a whole, live longer. In 2019, AF was mentioned on 183,321 death certificates and was the underlying cause of death in 26,535 of those cases. (Thompson, 2023)
However, one factor that seemed to play a large role in mediating risk was medication. The researchers found that for the individuals with AF that were treated with digoxin, oral anticoagulant treatment and amiodarone treatment had no greater risk of MCI than the cohort without AF.
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