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New study says COVID could lead to more brain damage than Alzheimer's - Daily Mail
Jan 15, 2022 1 min, 19 secs

A new study shows that COVID could lead to more brain damage in older people than Alzheimer's disease.

A report from the Alzheimer's association found that older patients who contract COVID have more signs of brain damage than people who develop Alzheimer's, the neurodegenerative disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. .

A new report found that older patients who contract COVID have more signs of brain damage than people who develop Alzheimer's.

They found that over the short-term course of their infections, seven markers of brain damage were noticeably higher among COVID patients than non-COVID patients with Alzheimer’s.

They identified 251 older patients that had no record or symptoms of cognitive decline or dementia before being hospitalized for COVID-19. .

They found that over the short-term course of their infections, seven markers of brain damage were noticeably higher among COVID patients than non-COVID patients with Alzheimer’s. .

A second analysis found that a portion of the damage markers in patients hospitalized briefly with COVID-19 were significantly higher than in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and in one particular case more than twice as high. .

'Our findings suggest that patients hospitalized for COVID-19, and especially in those experiencing neurological symptoms during their acute infection, may have levels of brain injury markers that are as high as, or higher than, those seen in people who have Alzheimer's disease,' Doctor Jennifer Frontera, a professor in the Department of Neurology, and lead author of the study said. .

Common symptoms among these long-hauler patients are brain fog, memory problems, and fatigue, along with other neurological issues.

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