{"id":3594,"date":"2023-05-16T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T00:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2023-05-16T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T00:07:37","slug":"covid-19-could-put-us-at-a-greater-risk-of-neurodegenerative-diseases-and-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/16\/covid-19-could-put-us-at-a-greater-risk-of-neurodegenerative-diseases-and-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 could put us at a greater risk of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/news\/covid-19-could-put-us-at-a-greater-risk-of-neurodegenerative-diseases-and-stroke\/\">Science Focus<\/a> Analysis of nearly one million Danish health records has found patients who tested positive for COVID-19 were subsequently more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, Parkinson\u2019s disease and stroke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 could be linked to an increased risk of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Parkinson\u2019s disease, a study carried out at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, has found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers statistically analysed records taken from both in- and outpatients in Denmark shortly after the coronavirus pandemic struck between February 2020 and November 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 919,731 patients that tested for COVID-19, they found that the 43,375 who tested positive had a 3.5 times increased risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, 2.6 times with Parkinson\u2019s disease, 2.7 times with stroke and a 4.8 times increased risk of with suffering from bleeding in the brain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in risk of neurological diseases was comparable to patients who had contracted influenza or other respiratory illnesses, but COVID patients over the age of 80 were seen to have a 1.7 times increased risk of stroke compared to influenza and pneumonia patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore than two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the precise nature and evolution of the effects of COVID-19 on neurological disorders remained uncharacterised,\u201d said lead author Dr Pardis Zarifkar, from the Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Focus Analysis of nearly one million Danish health records has found patients who tested positive for COVID-19 were subsequently more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, Parkinson\u2019s disease and stroke. COVID-19 could be linked to an increased risk of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Parkinson\u2019s disease, a study carried out at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}