The implantable cardioverter defibrillator in congestive heart failure patients in primary prevention: assessment of neuropsychological impact.

Aim: Cognitive impairment, anxiety and depression have been described in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The aim was to analyse the prevalence of cognitive impairment and anxiety-depression in an in-hospital CHF population before discharge attempting to correlate with the presence of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).

Methods: All subjects underwent a mini mental state examination (MMSE), geriatric depression scale (GDS), hospital anxiety and depression scale test (HADS).

[Evaluating short term efficacy of educative support in a cardiovascular rehabilitation using the MICRO-Q test: a single centre experience].

Unlabelled: Object of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of multiprofessional meetings in order to improve patients' knowledge about cardiovascular diseases, risk factors and correct lifestyle in a Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Department.

Methods: from November 2011 to June 2012 two MICRO-Q questionnaires were given to the Fossano Cardiovascular Rehabilitation's patients before and after the educational meetings to test their improvement after having followed educational meetings.

Results: 73 patients have answered the questionnaires (57 males, mean age 68,5 +/-11.

Clinical validity of the descriptor. "presence of a belief that one must eat in order to get to sleep" in diagnosing the Night Eating Syndrome.

The diagnostic criteria for the Night Eating Syndrome (NES) published in 2010 require the presence of two core criteria: evening hyperphagia and/or nocturnal awakenings for ingestion of food and three of five diagnostic descriptors. One of the descriptors is as follows: "The belief that one must eat in order to fall asleep". In this study we evaluated whether this conviction is significantly more prominent in obese individuals suffering from insomnia and nocturnal eating, than among obese patients with insomnia who do not eat at night.

Relationship between Cognitive Function, Depression/Anxiety and Functional Parameters in Patients Admitted for Congestive Heart Failure.

Unlabelled: Cognitive impairment, anxiety and depression have been described in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). We analyzed in-hospital CHF patients before discharge with neuropsychological tests attempting to correlate with prognostic parameters.

Methods: All subjects underwent a mini mental state examination (MMSE), geriatric depression scale (GDS), anxiety and depression scale test (HADS).