A British study confirms the fears of many corona patients: a Covid infection can lead to impaired cognitive performance.
London – The long-term physical consequences of Covid-19 * have been known for a long time: those affected complain of chronic exhaustion, fatigue or even shortness of breath. A British study has now shown that long-term consequences from corona disease can even occur on a cognitive level. In the course of the study, over 80,000 people were subjected to a lengthy survey and nine cognitive tests. About an eighth of them had already contracted Corona * before that. Some became infected with the lung disease in the course of the study, but this made the results more precise.
Overall, people who have already survived corona disease performed worse in the performance tests than those who were not yet infected with Covid-19. The tests examined various aspects of human cognition – including the subjects' attention span and working memory skills. The British study was published on July 22, 2021 in the journal “EClinicalMedicine” by the “Lancet” group. Read here which groups of people are particularly affected by the long-term cognitive effects *. * 24hamburg.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
