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How post-Covid loss of smell or taste affects cognition
Publicado em 19 agosto 2022
Patients with the most severe post-Covid smell and taste disorders are likely to perform worst in cognitive tests, especially when these involve memory, finds a study strengthening the hypothesis that loss of smell could be an early sign of the impending onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
In the study, a group of Brazilian researchers analysed clinical data from 701 patients hospitalised for moderate or severe Covid-19.
The results, reported in European Archives of Psychiatry and [...]
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Omicrons mutations explain why it is less severe among vaccinated
Publicado em 09 fevereiro 2022Omicron emerged as a variant of concern only in November 2021, but all the mutations it contains, except one, had been described before that Brazilian researchers have found that Omicron has mutations detected in previous variants and that is the reason why it is less severe among the vaccinated. Omicron emerged as a variant of concern only in November 2021, but all the mutations it contains, except one, had been described before that. Researchers at the Federal [...]ver notícia