2023-06-14 18:50:00
Scientists from India and Spain released a new study that sought to investigate effects on cognitive impairment in patients with pre-existing dementia who contracted the disease. Covid-19. Brain diseases showed an acceleration after infection.
According to the new study, published in the PudMed repository, 14 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal degeneration and Parkinson’s were analyzed. The researchers concluded that Covid-19 accelerated the onset of these diseases after one year.
The discovery of this is part of a series of studies carried out around the world to investigate the various late consequences of Covid-19, reported by patients, and which have had great demands on the medical field in recent months.
The combination of pre-existing dementia, contracting the virus and long social isolation resulted in very relevant cognitive losses, ifaccording to Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Orestes Forlenza.
“What this study shows is that the behavioral consequences of the pandemic, adding to that the fact that having had covid somehow influenced the disease process that was underway, were manifested by a more pronounced cognitive loss”, said Forlenza in interview to the Jornal da USP website.
The professor also pointed to the importance of understanding covid-19 as a systemic disease and not just a lung disease, that is, a disease that affects the entire body and can reach the human brain, accelerating pathogenic processes.
Forlenza cited that up to 50% of people infected by Covid-19 may have persistent cognitive complaints of various types, which can be both neurological and psychiatric, such as depressive, anxious and other symptoms.
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