Long-COVID autonomic dysfunction includes severe muscle pain, depression, anxiety, and a loss of thinking skills. More commonly known as brain fog, the symptoms are among the most frequent problems reported by people with long-COVID. MedTwitter
posted on the Northwestern website."We have seen that not only patients have symptoms, but they have decreased quality of life."
For older people and their caregivers, the risk of potential neurodegenerative diseases that the virus has shown to accelerate, such as dementia, are also a big concern. Alzheimer's is already theof more than 6 million people over the age of 65, Davis and her team at Case Western found the risk of Alzheimer's in the year after COVID-19 increased by 50% to 80%. The chances were especially high for women older than 85.
To date, there are no good treatments for Alzheimer's, yet total health care costs for long-term care and hospice services for people with dementia"The downstream effect of having someone with Alzheimer's being taken care of by a family member can be devastating on everyone," she says."Sometimes the caregivers don't weather that very well."
https://twitter.com/GanguliMitra/status/1579571918562529283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1579571918562529283%7Ctwgr%5Ea44c9067a9d03a07ad61bf1135f8c518a92f8385%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webmd.com%2Flung%2Fnews%2F20221011%2Fepidemic-of-brain-fog-long-covids-effects-worry-expertsWhen Davis's own father got Alzheimer's at age 86, her mother took care of him until she had a stroke one morning while making breakfast.
Looking at the broader picture, Davis believes widespread isolation, loneliness, and grief during the pandemic, and the disease of COVID-19 itself, will continue to have a profound impact on psychiatric diagnoses. This in turn could trigger a wave of newStill, not all brain experts are jumping to worst-case scenarios, with a lot yet to be understood before sounding the alarm.
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