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A new study indicates that cognitive impairment called “brain fog”, reported by covid patients – 19 –even some that did not require hospitalization– can remain in them for months after their recovery.
“In this study, we found a relatively high frequency of cognitive decline several months after patients became ill with covid – 19.
“The deficiencies in the executive functioning, processing speed, category fluency, memory encoding and recall were predominant among hospitalized patients, ”said Jacqueline Becker and other experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
The investigation , which was published by JAMA Network Open magazine , found that around l A quarter of the patients with the disease in a registry of the Mount Sinai Health System had memory problems.
Although they were the hospitalized patients those who showed a greater propensity to “mental fog”, other outpatients suffered the same cognitive deterioration.
“This pattern – follows the report — is consistent with the first reports describing a dysexecutive syndrome after covid – 19 and has considerable implications for occupational, psychological and functional outcomes. ”
It should be noted that other research found that up to one in three people with covid – 19 had symptoms neurological or mental health problems over a longer term, of about half a year. This is the published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry last April.
For the CDC, this difficulty concentrating or thinking is between the list of conditions after covid – 19 .
Add that “although most people with covid – 19 improve within a few weeks of illness, some experience later conditions . These conditions are a wide range of new, recurring, or ongoing health problems that people can experience four weeks or more after being first infected with the virus that causes covid – 19 ”.
The researchers conclude that “more studies are needed to identify the risk factors and mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction, as well as rehabilitation options. ”
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