Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 290-295 , May 2008

Factors Contributing to Global Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: Results From a Population-Based Cohort

  • Patrick M. Pullicino, MD

      Affiliations

    • Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Patrick Pullicino, MD, Room 103, KIHMS, Research and Development Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7PD, Kent, United Kingdom.
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  • Virginia G. Wadley, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
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  • Leslie A. McClure, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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  • Monika M. Safford, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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  • Ronald M. Lazar, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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  • Marc Klapholz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
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  • Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
    • Department of Medicine, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama
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  • Virginia J. Howard, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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  • George Howard, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

Received 7 September 2007 ,Revised 6 December 2007 ,Accepted 4 January 2008.

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 This research project is supported by a cooperative agreement U01 NS041588 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Additional funding was provided by an investigator-initiated grant-in-aid from Amgen Corporation. Amgen did not have any role in the design and conduct of the study; the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or the preparation or approval of the manuscript. The manuscript was sent to Amgen for review before submission for publication.

PII: S1071-9164(08)00021-3

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.01.003

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 290-295 , May 2008

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