Contributors to cognitive impairment in congestive heart failure: a pilot case-control study

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 600-605

  Beer, C ^a,b   Ebenezer, E ^c   Fenner, S ^d   Lautenschlager, N T ^a,d,e   Arnolda, L ^b   Flicker, L ^a,b   Almeida, O P ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cardiac failure; Cognition; Cognitive function; Heart failure; Memory

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; RENIN;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; WALKING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 70349335295     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2008.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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