Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Emotional and Cognitive Impairment Among Cardiac Patients - A Narrative Review

Sarika M L (Unknown)
Sasmita Das (Unknown)
Suresh Kumar Behera (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Sep 2021

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is a major group of contributing 31% of global mortality rate. The lifestyle changesare the key role to develop such diseases. The cardiovascular diseases are altering the life style practices andneed to change their routine life style. There are many related co morbidities that may arise after the cardiacevent. In which the emotional and cognitive co morbidities are making further risk to the subsequent cardiacevent. Therefore the correct and prompt treatment is needed for the prevention of the co morbidities. The mainaim of this narrative review is to find out the burden of emotional and cognitive impairment and to find outthe effect of relaxation technique on the reduction of the emotional and cognitive impairment among cardiacpatients. Mainly the online data sources including PubMed, PubMed central, Cochrane, Medline, Googlescholar were searched for the related studies. The main emotional imbalance are depression and stress.In which depression is contributing the major role among cardiac patients. The major pathophysiologicalchanges after myocardial infarction that lea to the emotional and cognitive symptoms are due to the reducedblood supply to brain and the anaerobic metabolism. There are different complimentary therapies are therefor the management of the emotional co morbidities. In which the relaxation therapy is very useful therapyin the emotional imbalance management.

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