TULSA: New research suggests that cognitive impairment could predict worse outcomes such as readmission to hospital or death in older heart failure patients.
According to the authors of the study, heart failure patients with cognitive impairment had a risk of all-cause death and heart failure readmission 7.5 times greater than those without cognitive impairment. The researchers suggest that this increase may in part be due to patients becoming worse at adhering to important courses of medication…