Dementia linked with Covid-related death in large study
Of the 28,311 patients diagnosed with Covid-19, 3,317 (11.3 per cent) had a dementia diagnosis.
Of the 28,311 patients diagnosed with Covid-19, 3,317 (11.3 per cent) had a dementia diagnosis.
"Memory loss and brain shrinkage were found in the study's middle-age participants before the onset of any symptoms," Echouffo-Tcheugui added.
For the study, the team trained their algorithms using data from more than 800 people ranging from normal healthy seniors to those experiencing mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease patients.