Mental disorders associated with cardiovascular disease

Mental disorders associated with cardiovascular disease are a category of mental disorders accompanying physical diseases. Mental disorders accompanying physical diseases refer to various psychiatric disorders that occur during the course of diseases of the internal organs, endocrine, nutritional, metabolic, hematologic, and connective tissue systems, due to impaired brain function. Mental disorders associated with cardiovascular disease can result from various cardiac diseases causing cerebral ischemia, hypoxia, and edema due to circulatory disturbances, leading to brain dysfunction and various psychiatric manifestations. Clinically common ones include cardiogenic encephalopathy and mental disorders associated with coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (coronary heart disease) and arrhythmias.