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| COVID-19 May Lead To Persistent Cognitive Impairment, Brain Fog, And Lower IQ Scores |
| 2024-03-08 |
| [ZERO] A new study found that COVID-19 infection can cause cognitive deficits that persist for over a year and lower IQ scores in severe cases. Those with persistent symptoms that resolved had small cognitive deficits similar to those with a shorter illness duration. In a large-scale observational study published on Feb. 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers invited 800,000 people with varying levels of COVID-19 exposure and duration to take an online cognitive assessment and follow-up survey. Cognitive difficulties have been implicated in numerous syndromes following COVID-19, including long COVID, suggesting infection may have lasting effects on the mental processes of the brain. The study’s authors hypothesized there would be measurable cognitive deficits after COVID-19 that would scale with the severity and duration of the illness. They also speculated that objective impairments in executive and memory function, especially poor memory and brain fog, would be observable in those with persistent symptoms. Using an assessment tool for cognitive function, researchers estimated global cognitive scores among participants with a history of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection who had symptoms for at least 12 weeks—whether resolved or not—and among a control group of uninfected participants. While cognitive and memory deficits were small for people with mild infection who recovered from COVID-19 quickly, impairments were more pronounced in those with severe disease. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 I wonder if the vaccines have similar effects? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2024-03-08 15:41 |
| #6 Has nothing to do with GMO corn. "Genetically engineered foods are just as safe as conventional foods." Honest. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-03-08 13:08 |
| #5 #4 Changes in diet? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-08 09:53 |
| #4 The true underlying causes of the ongoing international epidemics of obesity, essential hypertension, atherosclerotic vascular disease, etc. are still unknown. When I worked in the Indian Health Service out west in the 1970s, we cared for about 25,000 Navajo Indians. At that time, they had zero insulin dependent diabetics, zero stroke from atherosclerotic vascular disease, zero myocardial infarctions. They had a remarkable lack of these common ailments. Maybe our statistics were flawed, but I doubt they were THAT flawed. Sadly they are no longer blessed by these "deficiencies". |
| Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 2024-03-08 08:51 |
| #3 What about college education? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-08 07:13 |
| #2 Teenage drinking possibly ? Poss Teenage Angst. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-03-08 07:07 |
| #1 "Persistent" PCI and CRS? Mine pre-dates the release of the first GTO. Teenage drinking possibly ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-03-08 04:39 |