Do COVID-19 infection among patients increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? | ||||
| Microbes and Infectious Diseases | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2020, Page 92-93 PDF (212.63 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Letter to the Editor | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/mid.2020.46935.1073 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Siukan Law   1; Albert Wingnang Leung2; Chuanshan Xu3
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| 1Department of Science, School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong | ||||
| 2School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong | ||||
| 3Key Laboratory of Molecular Target and Clinical Pharmacology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The COVID-19 outbreak has occurred for more than ten months. Some COVID-19 complications are still unknown. Is there any long-term effect on the neurologic manifestations after COVID-19? Will the infected patient get a greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease? May the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have a long latency period in the Central Nervous System (CNS)? If this is possible, it has various non-specific inflammatory diseases that initiate and re-activate certain inflammatory or oxidative reactions in Alzheimer’s disease, but the neurological complications of COVID-19 are limited to individual cases or small case series according to several published papers. Recently, Varatharaj et al. reported the neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients who were divided into two groups, cerebrovascular and neuropsychiatric. 96% of patients with cerebrovascular events are also altered with mental status in the age range from 71 to 80. The results showed 43% of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders would have a new-onset psychosis such as neurocognitive, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. (To be continued)... | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19; Alzheimer’s disease; Neurologic manifestation | ||||
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