A recent letter published in the journal Nature Aging by medical staff who worked in hospitals in Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic assessed cognitive trajectories over 2.5 years in older coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors. Over one-tenth of the world’s population has had COVID-19.
As the number of COVID-19 survivors increases, disease surveillance is increasingly crucial to examine the risk of post-infection symptoms. Deficits in executive functioning, verbal fluency, attention, learning and working memory, and processing speed have been observed among COVID-19 survivors, including those with mild illness. Cognitive impairment is particularly prevalent in older adults with COVID-19.
Previously, the authors reported that cognitive decline was highly prevalent a year after COVID-19 among older adults. Individuals with severe illness had the highest cognitive decline during the first six months post-discharge, which was further exacerbated by 12 months. Letter: Tracking cognitive trajectories in older survivors of COVID-19 up to 2.
5 years post-infection . Image Credit: Donkeyworx / Shutterstock About the study In the present study, researchers investigated the cognitive trajectories of older adults over 2.5 years following COVID-19.
They recruited hospitalized COVID-19 patients discharged between February 10 and April 10, 2020, from three hospitals in Wuhan. Follow-up analyses were performed 6, 12, and 30 months after discharge. Non-infected spouses of patients se.