Research Progress on Cognitive Frailty in Elderly Patients with Heart Failure

Abstract

With the deepening of aging in our country, frailty, as a common elderly syndrome, has become a new prominent public health problem. Cognitive frailty, as a component of frailty, often coexists with heart failure, leading to a variety of adverse clinical outcomes. However, most of the current studies are devoted to cross-sectional investigation of the incidence of cognitive frailty in patients with heart failure and discussion of the correlation between the two, and the studies on its pathogenesis and intervention measures are scattered, and the review literature is relatively lacking. Moreover, in-depth study of the pathogenesis of such patients and exploration of effective intervention measures are extremely necessary to improve the quality of life and prognosis of patients. Therefore, this paper expounds the pathophysiological mechanism and summarizes the intervention measures in combination with relevant recent research, aiming to provide reference for the development of intervention programs for people with heart failure combined with cognitive frailty.