{"id":1687,"date":"2021-08-10T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2021-08-10T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:14:29","slug":"studies-covid-tied-to-persistent-cognitive-deficits-in-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Studies: COVID tied to persistent cognitive deficits in seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/ongoing-programs\/news-publishing\/news-publishing-staff\">Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0Jul 30, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">New studies show an association between COVID-19 and cognitive impairment in older patients, with one reporting memory problems and worse physical health 8 months after diagnosis and others finding cognitive decline and accelerated Alzheimer&#8217;s disease symptoms as long as 6 months after infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Memory problems, worse physical health<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">University of Oslo researchers led the first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2782531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, published yesterday in&nbsp;<em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>. It involved 9,705 nonhospitalized adults in Norway who had been either tested for SARS-CoV-2 at four large labs from Feb 1 to Apr 15, 2020, or randomly selected (untested). At that time, nearly all COVID-19 testing in Norway was in symptomatic patients. Participants, who completed the RAND 36-Item Health Survey, were, on average, 47 years old, and 66% were women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">After an average follow-up of 257 days after a baseline survey, 72 of the 651 COVID-19\u2013positive respondents (11%) said they had memory problems, compared with only 254 of 5,712 (4%) of those who tested negative for infection and 80 of 3,342 untested participants (2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">A multiple logistic regression model showed that SARS-CoV-2 positivity at baseline was strongly linked to memory deficits at 8 months follow-up, compared with the untested group (odds ratio, 4.66).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">At the same time, 267 of 649 participants (41%) in the COVID-19\u2013positive group reported that their health had substantially deteriorated over the previous year, and 59 of the 267 (82%) who reported memory impairment also said their health had worsened. Eighty-one of 651 positive respondents (12%) said they had difficulty concentrating. Similar numbers of patients in the three different groups reported depression, lack of energy, and pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2021\/07\/studies-covid-tied-persistent-cognitive-deficits-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2021\/07\/studies-covid-tied-persistent-cognitive-deficits-seniors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0Jul 30, 2021 New studies show an association between COVID-19 and cognitive impairment in older patients, with one reporting memory problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}