- In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.
- Survival rates have improved greatly over the past few years; now
almost 90% of people who experience a heart attack will survive it. - Heart health is strongly related to brain health, as healthy blood flow is vital to the functioning of the brain.
- A large-scale study has now found that older adults who experience a heart attack show a faster rate of cognitive decline in the following years than those who do not.
According to the
A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to the heart muscle is interrupted, usually by a blockage in an artery. This deprives the muscle of oxygen and nutrients, and may lead to a cardiac arrest, where the heart stops beating.
The vast majority of people who experience a heart attack will survive — only
Now, a large-scale study has found that people who have had a heart attack have a faster rate of cognitive decline than those who have not.
The study is published in
“This newly-published research investigates a very large and relatively diverse population ([more than] 30,000 people) from six well-characterized, long-term U.S. studies. The aim was to confirm and more specifically describe the impact of heart attack on cognitive functioning, and to specifically examine the impact of race and sex.”
– Dr….
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