Inverted mitral inflow pattern in echocardiography among the elderly — A marker of non-cardiovascular mortality and cognitive dysfunction

Independent association of cognitive dysfunction with cardiac hypertrophy irrespective of 24-h or sleep blood pressure in older hypertensives

“…Recently, van den Hurk et al 35 and Kerola et al 36 showed that cardiac diastolic dysfunction assessed by cardiac echocardiography was associated with cognitive dysfunction in an 37 demonstrated that cardiac geometric alteration with concentric hypertrophy was associated with silent cerebrovascular disease in hypertensive patients. In the present study, there was no significant association between cognitive dysfunction and high RWT (>0.45), a marker of cardiac concentric hypertrophy, 27 or low E/A ratio (<0.75), a marker of diastolic dysfunction, 28 despite our assessment that diastolic function is a less reliable marker.…”

Target risk factors for dementia prevention: a systematic review and Delphi consensus study on the evidence from observational studies

“…Coronary heart disease. Eight studies of 10 found an increased risk in people with coronary heart disease (Bunch et al, 2010;Eriksson et al, 2010;Bunch et al, 2011;Chen et al, 2011;Dublin et al, 2011;Unverzagt et al, 2011a;Hjelm et al, 2012;Kerola et al, 2012), and two studies found no association (80% consistency; Reitz et al, 2010b;Marengoni et al, 2011). Experts did not name coronary heart disease in the first Delphi round, and only one expert suggested to include it in the second round.…”