University of Miami In a study that followed COVID-19 patients for two years or more, researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine showed the disease contributes to long-lasting brain fog and other cognitive issues.
These results could be especially concerning for Hispanic, Black and other underrepresented communities, which are already at higher risk for neurocognitive disorders.
The research was published in the journal Plos One.
“We’ve been looking at the relationship between subjective cognitive complaints, such as brain fog, and objective cognition in long COVID, particularly in ethnically and racially diverse groups in South Florida,” said Barbara Junco, M.Sc., clinical research project manager and first author on the study. “We found persistent subjective and objective cognitive issues even two years after infection, including brain fog, word-finding problems, working memory deficits and reduced processing speed.”