Publication date: Apr 16, 2025
Although mild cognitive impairment is not always a sign of dementia, one in six people with these symptoms is diagnosed with dementia within a year. Early research showed that up to a third of people 65 and older suffering from long-covid met the criteria for mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to dementia. This is four to five times higher in prevalence compared to the same age group without long-COVID symptoms. Depending on individual circumstances, it is known to be as short as 4 weeks or more after infection and as long as 12 weeks or more. The research team conducted a study on 4,000 patients with COVID-19 when they were over the age of 60.
| Concepts | Keywords |
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| Alzheimer | Cognitive |
| Argentina | Continues |
| Japan | Covid |
| Neuroscience | Dementia |
| Texas | Develop |
| Impairment | |
| Infection | |
| Long | |
| Mild | |
| Pain | |
| Shown | |
| Suffered | |
| Symptoms | |
| Virus | |
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Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | dementia |
| disease | MESH | Long COVID |
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