COVID-19 Survivors May Suffer From Loss of Gray Matter Over Time: Study

• A new study has explored the potential  impact of COVID-19 on people’s brains. 
• The study drew on data from UK Biobank, a database for genetic and health information.
• The findings suggest there was a loss of gray matter in areas survivors’ brains. 
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A new study that drew on data gathered by UK Biobank suggests COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of gray matter over time.

The long-term experiment, which involved 782 volunteers, compared brain scans of individuals before the pandemic. For an analogy between pre-pandemic and post-pandemic brain scans, researchers then invited 394 COVID-19 survivors to return for follow-up scans, as well as 388 healthy volunteers. 

Among those participants who recovered from COVID-19, researchers saw significant…

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