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Characterizing Sleep Health, Sleep Disorders, and Cognitive Functioning After Heart Transplantation

US National Heart Lung and Blood Institute grant open #nih-1F32HL176010-01A1

Summary

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cognitive impairment impacts 30-63% of the people who receive a heart transplant. Cognitive impairment limits their ability to self-manage the necessary and complex medical regimens required to maintain viability of the transplanted heart and is associated with worse post-transplant survival. Sleep health may represent a modifiable factor that contributes to cognitive impairment after heart transplantation; however, the relationship between sleep health and cognitive functioning after heart transplantation has not been examined. The paucity of comprehensive sleep healt

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