{"id":990,"date":"2023-09-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=990"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:35:56","slug":"blood-clotting-proteins-might-help-predict-long-covid-brain-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/blood-clotting-proteins-might-help-predict-long-covid-brain-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Clotting Proteins Might Help Predict Long COVID Brain Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people who have long COVID\u2014a condition in which health issues persist months after infection\u2014report struggling with \u201cbrain fog,\u201d recurring memory and concentration lapses that make it difficult\u00ad\u00ad to function in everyday life. Now a new study has found these cognitive problems could result from blood clots triggered by infection, possibly through mechanisms like those that cause some types of dementia. These clots leave telltale protein signatures in blood, suggesting that testing for them could help predict, diagnose and possibly even treat long COVID.<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" class=\"research-citation\">Taquet, M., Skorniewska, Z., Hampshire, A. et al. Acute blood biomarker profiles predict cognitive deficits 6 and 12&nbsp;months after COVID-19 hospitalization. <i>Nat Med<\/i> (2023). DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-023-02525-y\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1038\/s41591-023-02525-y<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people who have long COVID\u2014a condition in which health issues persist months after infection\u2014report struggling with \u201cbrain fog,\u201d recurring memory and concentration lapses that make it difficult\u00ad\u00ad to function in everyday life. Now a new study has found these cognitive problems could result from blood clots triggered by infection, possibly through mechanisms like those that cause some types of dementia. These clots leave telltale protein signatures in blood, suggesting that testing for them could help predict, diagnose and possibly even treat long COVID.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/blood-clotting-proteins-might-help-predict-long-covid-brain-fog\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood Clotting Proteins Might Help Predict Long COVID Brain Fog<\/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":[191,37,46,18,256,38,257,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-clots","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-d-dimer","tag-dementia","tag-fibrinogen","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}