Press "Enter" to skip to content

Tag: Chile

Topic: cognitive issuesView all posts for the topic: cognitive issues

COVID-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain

Published August 19, 2024

Still COVIDing Canada Posts

Published by: CIDRAP
Published on:
By Mary Van Beusekom

A new study of 73 adults recovering from COVID-19 finds that those who lost their sense of smell showed behavioral, functional, and structural brain changes.

Researchers in Chile conducted cognitive screening, performance on a decision-making task, functional testing, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results with 73 patients after mild to moderate COVID-19 infection and 27 COVID-naïve patients with infections from other pathogens. Two follow-up sessions were conducted 15 days apart.

Continue readingCOVID-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain
Comments closed
Topic: life expectancyView all posts for the topic: life expectancy

COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II

Published September 27, 2021

Still COVIDing Canada Posts

Published by: Oxford University
Published on:

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries, according to research published today, led by scientists at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

Continue readingCOVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II
Comments closed