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Is there a connection between dementia and heart and renal failure?
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Organ failure: Decreased cardiac output and the chemical poisons left in the blood with renal failure can both impair cerebral function.
Answered 6/25/2013
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Sort of: There is more of a connection between delirium and those scenarios, but the same things that cause renal and heart failure also cause brain failure...
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