Hu WS, et al. - In patients with heart failure (HF) who need hospitalization, researchers explored the use of the CHA₂DS₂-VASc and the AHEAD scores to predict incident dementia via using a large national database. Participants in the study included 387,595 adult patients hospitalized for HF from Taiwan. They found that higher CHA₂DS₂-VASc and AHEAD scores were more strongly related to a higher incidence of dementia. Compared with the AHEAD score, the area under the curve of receiver operating characteristics (AUROC) for CHA₂DS₂-VASc score in anticipating dementia was significantly higher. Overall, they found a significantly higher ability, by AUROC, of CHA2DS2-VASc score to predict new-onset dementia in patients hospitalized for HF.