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The ANRS Infectious Diseases will help fund several research projects to better understand the consequences of Sars-CoV-2 infection in patients who experience long-term symptoms.
“We are not done with the long Covid” : l’infectiologue Yazdan Yazdanpanahdirector of the ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases, mobilizes research to better understand the consequences of Sars-CoV-2 infection in patients who develop a long version of the disease, a phenomenon that is still too little known and considered to be “a matter of urgency”. Last week, the public body, in conjunction with the Foundation for Medical Research, selected 19 projects, which will be funded to the tune of 7 million euros,
Among the research chosen is that of Vincent Prévot, director of research at Inserm and his team, who looked at the risk of premature brain aging in patients. “The virus has been found to create micro-haemorrhages in the brain which could explain some of the symptoms developed by patients with long Covid”, reports the researcher. “If it can be reversed, a fragility of the central nervous system could increase the risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease many years later.”
Case of pregnant women
This research focuses mainly on the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that plays a crucial role in the regulation of vital functions, such as sleep. Also analyzed, the reproductive functions, the virus being able to “cause death …