“Cardiovascular diseases are one of the main causes of death and morbidity (limitations) in Portugal, as well as in Europe.” This is how the Público newspaper opens a news piece that reports on a study carried out by CINTESIS researchers, in collaboration with CESPU – Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, that followed a group of patients who have had an infarction, and found that 85% had some form of cognitive loss, and of those, 49% had serious deficits. The most affected areas were verbal fluency and memory.
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