Associations between coronary heart disease and risk of cognitive impairment: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies have demonstrated that coronary heart disease (CHD) is a high risk factor for cognitive impairment, whereas other studies showed that there was no association between cognitive impairment and CHD. The relationship between CHD and cognitive impairment is still unclear based on these conflicting results. Thus, it is of importance to evaluate the association between CHD and cognitive impairment. The present study made a meta-analysis to explore the association between CHD and risk of cognitive impairment.

Methods

Articles exploring the association between CHD and cognitive impairment and published before November 2020 were searched in the following databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Medline, EMBASE, and Google Scholar. We used STATA 12.0 software to c

SUBMITTER: Liang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8119850 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature