COVID-19 and Alzheimer s: Researchers find worrisome links
By Lauran Neergaard
Medical studies finding possible long-term effects of COVID-19
This study followed patients who had a mild case of COVID-19 for up to nine months after recovery - and found about a third of them had persisting symptoms.
LOS ANGELES - Researchers are trying to unravel why some COVID-19 survivors suffer brain fog and other problems that can last for months, and new findings suggest some worrisome overlaps with Alzheimer’s disease.
One study of older adults in Argentina found a surprising amount of dementia-like changes in memory and thinking for at least six months after a bout with the coronavirus regardless of the severity of their infection. Other researchers found Alzheimer’s-related proteins in the blood of New Yorkers whose COVID-19 triggered brain symptoms early on.
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