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Cognitive dysfunction in patients of rheumatoid arthritis
Neha Chaurasia1, Anup Singh2, Indramani L Singh1, Tara Singh1, Trayambak Tiwari1
1 Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
| Date of Submission | 25-Feb-2020 |
| Date of Decision | 19-Mar-2020 |
| Date of Acceptance | 15-Apr-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 31-May-2020 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Neha Chaurasia
Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_307_20
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a form of arthritis characterized by joint pain, stiffness, swelling and deformity. There has been plethora of researches in the area of rheumatoid arthritis which focused on immune system, genetic predisposition and newer treatment modalities. Researchers have also examined the cognitive decline, physical deficits and their interrelationship in patients with RA. Among several psychological aspects depression, anxiety and stress emerge as significant psychological co morbidity. RA is a multifactorial, chronic, inflammatory disease primarily affects physical functioning as well as psychological aspects. Pain, fatigue, duration of disease, disease activity and functional disability are very common in rheumatoid arthritis which is leading cause of psychological distress and functional disability. Various types of neuropsychological battery were used to assess the decline in specific areas like attention, executive functioning, visuo-spatial learning, verbal learning/memory etc. These functions were compared with other type of arthritis disease. Also, various other factors like depression, cardiovascular diseases, other systemic and chronic disease and concomitant drugs intake etc. also affected cognitive functioning in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients. The objective of this review was to identify and explore the rates and types of cognitive impairment in RA.This present review paper systematically examines and summarizes the cognition related decrement in arthritis patients. Multiple research articles between 1990 to 2018 were searched. These reviews were evaluated and synthesized using a narrative and descriptive approach.
Keywords: Attentional functioning, cognitive impairment, pain, rheumatoid arthritis, Yoga
How to cite this article:
Chaurasia N, Singh A, Singh IL, Singh T, Tiwari T. Cognitive dysfunction in patients of rheumatoid arthritis. J Family Med Prim Care 2020;9:2219-25 |
How to cite this URL:
Chaurasia N, Singh A, Singh IL, Singh T, Tiwari T. Cognitive dysfunction in patients of rheumatoid arthritis. J Family Med Prim Care [serial online] 2020 [cited 2021 Mar 2];9:2219-25. Available from: https://www.jfmpc.com/text.asp?2020/9/5/2219/285112 |
| Introduction | |  |
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease that involves systems/organs other than the bones and joint alone.[1] RA is an autoimmune disease wherein white blood cells attack the organism's own tissues, cause symmetrical joint pain associated with swelling, stiffness, and deformity. It is the most common rheumatic disorder among connective tissue disorders. It is a persistent and progressive inflammatory process, which begins with the synovial membrane and ends with the destruction, deformation, and impairment of articular tissues and articulatory function.[2] Etiology is unclear. However, various factors like climate, race, diet, psychosomatic disorders, trauma, endocrine dysfunction, biochemical disorders, hereditary influences, disturbances in the autoimmunity, and infection have been found to initiate the rheumatoid process. The symptoms and progression of RA vary widely from person to person. It tends to strike during the most productive years of adulthood, between the ages of 20 and 40, and is a chronic disabling condition often causing pain and deformity. Women are affected more than men in a ratio of 3:1.[1]
There is no cure for RA, but medical treatments are useful for reducing pain at a normal level. Medical treatment is aimed at the reduction of symptoms by attacking the inflammation and prevention of joint damage. Medical management of RA involves the use of analgesics, non-steroid anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) and corticosteroids. Besides medical treatments, physical exercise, yoga, and cognitive behavior therapies enhance the functional ability, quality of life, well-being as well as physical and mental health.
Clinical features of RA
The disease involves several organs and synovial tissues with various systemic manifestations. The involvement of the synovial lining of tendon sheaths and ligaments gives rise to pain, swelling, increased redness, and stiffness. The involvement of ligaments in the cervical region may produce subluxation with pain and neurological signs. The involvement of articular surfaces of the joints and its surrounding soft tissues produces cardinal joint symptoms that eventually are responsible for the crippling disorganization of the concerned joint. The extent of physical disability is directly proportional to these changes. They begin with pain, tenderness, warmth, erythema, and effusion. If not controlled, they progress to stiffness, cartilage wear and tear, and osteoporosis resulting in joint subluxation and dislocation. In the majority of patients the wrist, metacarpophalangeal and knee joints are involved early as compared to the other joints. Progressive weakness of the muscle groups further complicates the patient's situation.[1]
RA: Pain and cognitive functioning
Pain is a subjective, multidimensional experience that can have a marked impact on both the physiological and psychological state of an individual. Chronic pain has bio psychosocial implications, affecting relationships, capacity for work, mood, quality of life, and disabling limitations on physical function.[3],[4] Studies suggested that pain severity negatively associated with cognitive task performance.[5],[6],[7]
Cognitive functioning is thought to be affected in chronic pain (pain persisting for 3-6 months or longer) patients. It is hypothesized that because neural systems involved in cognition and pain processing are closely linked, they may modulate one another reciprocally. Cognition has been described as the brain's acquisition, processing, storage, and retrieval of information.[8] Co-morbid affective disorders (such as depression, stress, and anxiety), and the effects of fatigue and sleep disturbance and medication use are sometimes, but not always, considered as important factors affecting cognition in RA.
Cognitive impairment is described as difficulty in remembering, learning new things, problem-solving, concentrating, or making decisions. Previous studies also reported that cognitive functioning is also affected by RA. Bartolini et al. observed that cognitive dysfunction was common in RA patients with prevalence rates ranging from 38% (divided/sustained attention and mental flexibility) to 71% (visuo-spatial and planning functions).[9]
The study by Dick et al. on attentional functioning in RA and its comparison with fibromyalgia (FM) and musculoskeletal (MSK) pain patients revealed that impaired cognitive functioning existed in all the groups.[10] This study supports previous findings by reporting that many chronic pain patients have significant attentional dysfunction. Ziarko et al. revealed that pain intensity, coping strategies, and ego resiliency depend on the severity of anxiety and depression.[11] In another study, Dick and Rashiq examined the disruption in attention and memory processes accompanied by chronic pain and found that 2/3 of participants with chronic pain had impaired attention and significantly greater difficulties in maintaining a memory trace during a challenging test of working memory.[12]
Brown et al. revealed that RA patients with pain and depression performed poorly on the cognitive task. However, the effects of pain on cognition were no longer found when depression was entered as a mediated variable.[13] Another study also reported a negative association between arthritis pain and performance on a task requiring selective attention, inhibition, and working memory was found.[14]
Bilgici et al. compared three groups, i.e. healthy controls, RA, and FM patients on measures of cognitive functions (global attention/working memory, language, visual and verbal memory, visuospatial process, and executive function) and observed that FM and RA patients performed poorly on most of the measures of cognitive functions compared with healthy controls.[15] However, differences in cognitive functions between patients with FM and RA were found non-significant except for the measure of executive functions. Although cognitive symptoms may be exacerbated by the presence of fatigue, sleep problems, and pain, the relationship of these factors to cognitive problems in FM patients is unclear.
A recent study of three groups of patients (acute pain, regularly recurrent pain, and persistent pain) on three measures of cognitive functions (sustained attention, cognitive control, and psychomotor ability) was found that patients with constant pain lead to a decline in performance on sustained attention and psychomotor functions as compared to healthy controls. Patients with acute pain have a significant relationship with psychomotor ability; this reduced the performance on psychomotor ability. The individuals who have regularly current pain have a major impact on decrementing the performance in sustained attention.[16] Brain parts such as the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and secondary somatosensory cortex have a major role in controlled and higher-order cognitive processing which involves attention, cognitive control, and certain psychomotor abilities.[17],[18]
Moore et al. found that experimentally induced thermal pain affected task switching, dual attention, and attentional span.[19] It clearly suggests that tasks requiring higher-orderr processes, particularly executive control are susceptible to pain interference.[20] Using neuropsychological tests battery, Simos et al. found that 20% of RA patients were cognitively impaired. It is assumed that cognitive impairment leads to decrease in performance in physical activity and other executive functioning.[21]
Low cognitive function was significantly associated with the subsequent loss of physical function in daily activities with a significant relationship between cognitive function and functional limitation, especially in older adults.[22] Shin et al. investigated the relationship between cognitive function and physical function in RA, using 12 standardized neuropsychological measures and found that cognitive impairment was significantly associated with greater functional limitations in patients with RA and this decrement was associated with performance-based and self-reported measures.[23] Cognitive difficulties in RA may have enough impact on daily functioning treatment management and adaption to illness.[23],[24] The above studies have shown that RA is a disease having pain and physical symptoms but there is a psychological aspect regarding this disease. This pain affects work, sleep, daily activities and negatively impacts an individual's quality of life.[25] The following summary in [Table 1] shows some previous research studies of RA with different psychological variables.
| Factors Affecting Cognitive Functioning in Rheumatoid Arthritis | | |
Various factors are responsible for cognitive impairment in RA. Previous research has professed that chronic pain in arthritis disrupts attention and that this breakdown can lead to significant functional impairment and decreased quality of life. Prevalence studies indicate that as much as 44% of the population experience pain regularly and that in one-quarter of this group the pain is severe.[28],[29] It is clear that many individuals who suffer from chronic pain experience attentional and other deficits.
Pain serves as a negative indication and warning of actual or potential harm.[13] Patients with chronic pain experience disruption of attention and memory.[2] Chronic pain affects the ability to work, sleep, and daily life activities and these changes generally worsen over time. Eccleston and Crombez documented that patients with chronic pain who reported higher levels of both pain and somatic awareness showed significant performance decrements on an attentionally demanding switching task compared with other chronic pain patients.[30] The mechanism underlying the interaction between pain and attention/cognitive function is not understood but likely involves some common cortical elements because pain involves similar attentional resources as other cognitive processes.
Brown et al. documented the negative impact of pain on measures of processing speed, reasoning, working memory, and verbal episodic memory, which were largely mediated by depressive symptomatology.[13] Disease symptoms such as chronic pain and psychological distress have been linked to cognitive impairment.[31] Thus, pain being central to arthritis plays a crucial role among arthritis patients during their cognitive performances.
Drugs, which are used for treating pain in RA has also their effect on cognition. Such as corticosteroid responsible for their effects on cognitive abilities, like memory. Wolkowitz et al. (1990) also found that even a single dose (1 mg dose of dexamethasone) or short - term use of corticosteroids (80 mg dose of prednisone for 5 days) was significantly related to memory problems.[32]
Shin et al. found possible predictors through their study that persons with lower education, lower income, oral glucocorticoid use, and increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors were more likely to be cognitively impaired. Demographic factors, medical comorbities, and steroid treatment were identified in studies as potential risk factors for cognitive dysfunction.
A study of Smedstad et al. RA symptoms were of great impact on psychiatric illnesses but mediated also between inflammation and stress.[33] Similarly, Covic et al. found that the degree of fatigue, as well as pain, can predict depression.[34] Contrary to this result, Huyser et al. could only confirm an interrelation between RA-fatigue and - pain and problematic moods.[35] Zautra et al. could detect that a past episode of depression could have the effect that pain at baseline was higher than in people without a depression history.[36] Further in this study, social distress had a strengthening effect on this relation. Other studies wherein psychosocial factors had an impact on the relation between RA symptomatic and mood problems were of Covic et al. who detected that helplessness not only affects depression but also increases pain perception[37] and mediate the relationship between depression and pain and Chaney et al. who found that internal attributions as helplessness enforce pain perception and depression.[38] Also, Frantom et al. could relate several psychosocial factors like stress and self-efficacy directly to pain.[39]
Anxiety and depression both are common constructs and are seen as distinctly different, anxiety being motivated by fear while depression by sadness.[40] Some studies show a higher prevalence rate of anxiety than depression in RA, whereas others do not.[41],[42] According to the tripartite model[43], it is possible that anxiety manifests through physical arousal, increased sensitivity to pain, and interpretation of sensation as painful. However, depressive symptoms can be increase vulnerability to pain sensation at a time of stress.[44] So, [Table 2] presents a conceptual model of relations between symptoms of RA and subclinical mood problems.
RA can be accompanied by cognitive dysfunction yet there is very limited literature on their dynamics. To assess cognitive impairment, deficits have been noted on short - term memory, visuospatial processing, episodic memory, and executive tasks.[9],[45] Shin et al. also have worked on the same topic and revealed that the proportion of persons who were classified as cognitively impaired on each test ranged from 8-29%. More than 20% of subjects were found to be cognitively impaired in executive functions (28% on the design fluency test and 21% on the trail making test). A total of 29% and 18% of subjects were cognitively impaired in visuospatial learning and verbal learning/memory, respectively.[26] These deficits are because of lower levels of socioeconomic status (e.g., education and income), so it is well-known risk factors for poorer performance on cognitive tasks.[46],[47]
It is estimated that the prevalence of depression in RA between 14% and 62% and the level of anxiety stands with a prevalence of between 21% and 70%. Brown et al. found that pain was positively related to depression and negatively related to cognitive functioning and that depression mediated the relationship between pain and cognitive functioning, suggesting that pain leads to depression, which leads to poorer cognitive functioning.[13] Studies have reported that executive and attentional functions are affected in chronic pain patients and it challenged attentional demands of chronic pain.[30],[48],[49] Yilmaz et al. concluded their findings as psychological stress and mood status are independent factors for relapse periods among RA and contribute to disease flare. RA patients also have increased functional disability, and decreased quality of life with higher disease activity.[50] Patients who suffer from excessive pain has also decreased health-relatedd quality of life. Brandstetter et al. also explained in their study that social support was found to be inversely associated with depressive symptoms in RA.[51]
| Mechanism of Cognitive Decline in RA | | |
There are number of factors for cognitive decline in RA and have some mechanisms involved in it. Studies show that the mechanism of systemic inflammation and CVD are linked with this type of impairment in the general population and have particular relevance for RA. In addition, the influence of glucocorticoid use and CVD may be interconnected, with some studies suggesting that glucocorticoid use may also confer a direct risk for CVD in RA.[52]
The mechanism for the deterioration of attention and executive function in chronic pain patients remains largely unclear. However, it has been suggested that patients have an attentional bias toward painful sensation, which may cause distraction from other stimuli. The experience of pain may reduce the capacity to attend to another stimulus because it captures attentional resources itself. It is also expected that increasing task demands on cognitive task performance decreases in chronic pain patients to a greater extent.[17] Earlier research found that people with RA had more trouble with tests of memory, speaking ability, and attention. More recent theories suggest that attention is a system of anomalous networks including alerting, orienting, and selection.[53]
So, through literature review, it has been clearly identified that RA patients get affected on various aspects of cognitive functioning and pain is a major factor involved in the decrement of performance. This work will provide a beneficial psychological outlook for the RA patients in a clinical setting.
| Conclusions | | |
Based on previous studies, it has been observed that the cognitive functioning of RA patients got affected by RA induced pain. There are multiple factors involved in cognitive impairment, which negatively affect mental health along with physical health. Psychological treatment using patient education and cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective for patients with chronic pain.[54] Multiple aspects of cognition covered by attention and executive function domains, which were reported in earlier findings. However, there are many parts of executive function that remains unclear such as working memory and set shifting.[55] Studies reported that pain, fatigue, poor sleep, and depression may be attentional distractions, and in turn affect cognitive processes and influence daily life activities.[56] People with more depression and greater pain respectively perform less well on tests of cognitive function and this cognitive function is subsequently impaired by pain and depression both.[57] Meade et al. reviewed and revealed that age, education, disease activity, and depression were associated with cognitive impairment.[58] Pain is known to affect cognition, particularly mental flexibility and attention. This is because of the attention-occupying nature of chronic pain and due to overlap between brain regions, which involve pain and cognition.[59]
Therefore, there is a need to examine the various other psychological factors that decreases the performances of patients with RA. To understand the effect of arthritis pain on attention and its other dimensions like alerting, orienting, and executive control should be also measured in RA and other arthritis patients. Further studies are also needed to confirm and explore the prevalence rates and examine the potential mechanism. Also, the management of psychological symptoms in such kind of patients should be multidisciplinary and should include psychoeducational programs.
Relevance of the study for the practice of family physicians
RA is the most common rheumatic disorder with persistent pain. A person suffering from RA experiences numerous somatic symptoms like deformation of joints, fever, fatigue, pain, sleep disturbances, and weight loss along with various psychological issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, feeling of loss, and other social difficulties, which might be related to changes in fulfilling their social roles and responsibilities.[60] From the earlier studies, it is assumed that pain is one of the most distressing symptoms of RA and it has a major role in influencing and exaggerating negative emotions like anxiety and depression. So, medication would be better work with a combination of yoga asanas, psychoeducational programs, and awareness programs.
Yoga might be considered as an ancillary treatment for RA. Yoga asanas have shown significant improvement in handgrip strength[61] and reduction in the symptoms of anxiety, depression[62], and oxidative stress[63] and also relieve tensions leading to better relaxation and concentration.[27],[64] Systematic reviews have shown that yoga seems to be a safe and effective intervention for patients with arthritis.
The practice of yoga can lead to significant improvements in physical, mental as well as spiritual health. Medicine would work better in patients' bodies if their psychological problems would be identified and healed together with the treatment. Thus, these intervention programs were very beneficial in decreasing disability and enhancing functionality to improve cognition and mental health.
Financial support and sponsorship
Funding for this work was provided by University Grant Commission, National Eligibility Test- Junior Research Fellowship (NET-JRF) in science, humanities, and social science (UGC - Ref. No.: 308/NET-DEC. 2014).
Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.
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