Heart Diseases Impair Memory

American experts came to the following conclusion:heart diseasesas well as poor memory and learning with each other are directly related. In other words, people with these or other heart diseases are faced with a significant deterioration in such indicators as learning ability, as well as memory, strikingly more often in comparison with their healthy peers.

At the very beginning of the observation of volunteers in the number of 17 thousand 800 people, as well as the age from 45 years and older, the researchers noted a normally functioning cognitive status, while they did not have a stroke. Over the next four years, however, everything changed very much. People with poor heart conditions are at the highest risk for cognitive problems. This was verified using specially prepared tests. For example, participants had to name the maximum number of animals in a minute.

In general, cognitive impairment was found in almost 5% of the tested respondents with poor heart condition. At the same time, people with a healthy heart experienced such problems only in 2,6% of cases.

In the experiment, the statistics did not affect either the age of the subjects or their ethnicity. Be sure to highlight the fact that at the moment the researchers have no evidence that the opposite effect is still possible, an increase in heart health will also entail an improvement in cognitive abilities. At the moment, work in this direction has just begun and will last, most likely for quite a long period of time.