{"id":4708,"date":"2024-02-29T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2024-03-01T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:40:13","slug":"long-covid-may-cause-cognitive-decline-of-about-six-iq-points-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-may-cause-cognitive-decline-of-about-six-iq-points-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Long covid may cause cognitive decline of about six IQ points, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more than four years since the first cases of covid-19 were identified \u2014 but many of its longer-term effects, including for those living with long covid, remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study has some worrying findings that suggest covid may have longer-term effects on cognition and memory \u2014 and that these lead to measurable differences in cognitive performance.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that participants who recovered from covid symptoms had a cognitive deficit equivalent to three IQ points compared with those who were never infected, while participants suffering from unresolved covid symptoms lasting 12 weeks or more experienced a loss equivalent to six IQ points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more than four years since the first cases of covid-19 were identified \u2014 but many of its longer-term effects, including for those living with long covid, remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study has some worrying findings that suggest covid may have longer-term effects on cognition and memory \u2014 and that these lead to measurable differences in cognitive performance.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that participants who recovered from covid symptoms had a cognitive deficit equivalent to three IQ points compared with those who were never infected, while participants suffering from unresolved covid symptoms lasting 12 weeks or more experienced a loss equivalent to six IQ points.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-may-cause-cognitive-decline-of-about-six-iq-points-study-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long covid may cause cognitive decline of about six IQ points, study finds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,159,46,18,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-decline","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}