{"id":540,"date":"2023-04-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=540"},"modified":"2023-11-23T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T00:03:43","slug":"covid-infection-could-speed-up-progression-of-dementia-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-infection-could-speed-up-progression-of-dementia-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid infection could speed up progression of dementia, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Reports, has discovered that infection with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid) has a significant impact on cognitive function in patients with pre-existing dementia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Dubey S, Das S, Ghosh R, Dubey MJ, Chakraborty AP, Roy D, Das G, Dutta A, Santra A, Sengupta S, Benito-Le\u00f3n J. The Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on the Cognitive Functioning of Patients with Pre-Existing Dementia. J Alzheimers Dis Rep. 2023 Feb 14;7(1):119-128. DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3233\/ADR-220090\" rel=\"noopener\">10.3233\/ADR-220090<\/a>. PMID: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36891252\/\" rel=\"noopener\">36891252<\/a>; PMCID: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/pmc9986710\/\" rel=\"noopener\">PMC9986710<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Reports, has discovered that infection with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid) has a significant impact on cognitive function in patients with pre-existing dementia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-infection-could-speed-up-progression-of-dementia-new-study-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid infection could speed up progression of dementia, new 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":[187,37,190,46,18,38,11,613,189,8,14,188],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-impairment","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-dementia","tag-long-covid","tag-neurodegenerative-diseases","tag-parkinsons-disease","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vascular-dementia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}