60% Increased Risk of New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults After Covid

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by crhulls • 2 years ago

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animal_spirits• 2 years ago

The paper is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4716751

andy99• 2 years ago

From the paper:

  This risk appears to be on par with that associated with other respiratory infections.

crhulls• 2 years ago

What do you think this is then telling us? Is there some cause vs correlation being mixed up? Or are infections just a trigger for something that was waiting to tip?

rogerkirkness• 2 years ago

The latter, viruses are just stressful on the body and recent research is finding the more subtle and long term ways they affect us. Rather than Long Covid being some historically unusual phenomenon, the research is showing that there is Long versions of other viruses we were misattributing before with similar frequency.

60% Increased Risk of New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults After Covid

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