{"id":370361,"date":"2026-04-02T01:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370361\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:25:10","slug":"long-covid-linked-to-higher-incidence-of-mild-cognitive-impairment-the-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370361\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID Linked to Higher Incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment | The Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurologyadvisor.com\/news\/long-covid-incidence-mild-cognitive-impairment\/#xd_co_f=MmVjZjNkNzktZjMxYi00YzZhLTk5ZmUtNGQxM2VjNDkxZjk1~\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neurology Advisor<\/a> Over 4.4 years of follow-up, the cumulative incidence of MCI was 27% (95% CI, 17%\u201340%) among patients with long COVID, 5% (95% CI, 2%\u201310%) among recovered COVID-positive patients, and 1% (95% CI, 0.2%\u20134%) among COVID-negative control individuals. Long COVID was associated with a higher hazard of MCI compared with individuals without long COVID (hazard ratio [HR], 3.93; 95% CI, 1.86\u20138.31;\u00a0P\u00a0&lt;.001). The hazard of Alzheimer disease (AD)\u2013related MCI was also higher among patients with long COVID (HR, 3.20; 95% CI, 1.14\u20139.0;\u00a0P\u00a0=.027).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 14% of participants (n=37) were diagnosed with MCI, and 0.4% of participants with long COVID (n=1) were diagnosed with AD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com\/news\/january-2026-recap-drug-pipeline-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dementia<\/a>. Among those with long\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurologyadvisor.com\/news\/maternal-sars-cov-2-infection-pregnancy-neurodevelopment-outcomes\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"COVID, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">COVID<\/a>, the most common MCI subtype was AD\u2013related MCI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurologyadvisor.com\/news\/long-covid-incidence-mild-cognitive-impairment\/#xd_co_f=MmVjZjNkNzktZjMxYi00YzZhLTk5ZmUtNGQxM2VjNDkxZjk1~\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" DzVBPeRMstJWWQkn   MV \" target=\"_blank\">\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neurology Advisor Over 4.4 years of follow-up, the cumulative incidence of MCI was 27% (95% CI, 17%\u201340%) among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-370361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}