Cognitive impairments four months after COVID-19 hospital discharge: Pattern, severity and association with illness variables
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Cognitive impairments four months after COVID-19 hospital discharge : Pattern, severity and association with illness variables. / Miskowiak, K. W.; Johnsen, S.; Sattler, S. M.; Nielsen, S.; Kunalan, K.; Rungby, J.; Lapperre, T.; Porsberg, C. M.
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T1 - Cognitive impairments four months after COVID-19 hospital discharge
T2 - Pattern, severity and association with illness variables
AU - Miskowiak, K. W.
AU - Johnsen, S.
AU - Sattler, S. M.
AU - Nielsen, S.
AU - Kunalan, K.
AU - Rungby, J.
AU - Lapperre, T.
AU - Porsberg, C. M.
N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank the Department of Pulmonology Medicine and Respiratory Research Unit , Bispebjerg University Hospital, for the financial support for the study. KWM would like to thank the Lundbeck Foundation for her five-year Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship (grant no. R215-2015-4121 ). We thank miss Beata Trawińska for her work with creating Figure 1. Publisher Copyright: © 2021
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected more than 100 million people and clinics are being established for diagnosing and treating lingering symptoms, so called long-COVID. A key concern are neurological and long-term cognitive complications. At the same time, the prevalence and nature of the cognitive sequalae of COVID-19 are unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the frequency, pattern and severity of cognitive impairments 3–4 months after COVID-19 hospital discharge, their relation to subjective cognitive complaints, quality of life and illness variables. We recruited patients at their follow-up visit at the respiratory outpatient clinic, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg, approximately four months after hospitalisation with COVID-19. Patients underwent pulmonary, functional and cognitive assessments. Twenty-nine patients were included. The percentage of patients with clinically significant cognitive impairment ranged from 59% to 65% depending on the applied cut-off for clinical relevance of cognitive impairment, with verbal learning and executive functions being most affected. Objective cognitive impairment scaled with subjective cognitive complaints, lower work function and poorer quality of life. Cognitive impairments were associated with d-dimer levels during acute illness and residual pulmonary dysfunction. In conclusion, these findings provide new evidence for frequent cognitive sequelae of COVID-19 and indicate an association with the severity of the lung affection and potentially restricted cerebral oxygen delivery. Further, the associations with quality of life and functioning call for systematic cognitive screening of patients after recovery from severe COVID-19 illness and implementation of targeted treatments for patients with persistent cognitive impairments.
AB - The ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected more than 100 million people and clinics are being established for diagnosing and treating lingering symptoms, so called long-COVID. A key concern are neurological and long-term cognitive complications. At the same time, the prevalence and nature of the cognitive sequalae of COVID-19 are unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the frequency, pattern and severity of cognitive impairments 3–4 months after COVID-19 hospital discharge, their relation to subjective cognitive complaints, quality of life and illness variables. We recruited patients at their follow-up visit at the respiratory outpatient clinic, Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg, approximately four months after hospitalisation with COVID-19. Patients underwent pulmonary, functional and cognitive assessments. Twenty-nine patients were included. The percentage of patients with clinically significant cognitive impairment ranged from 59% to 65% depending on the applied cut-off for clinical relevance of cognitive impairment, with verbal learning and executive functions being most affected. Objective cognitive impairment scaled with subjective cognitive complaints, lower work function and poorer quality of life. Cognitive impairments were associated with d-dimer levels during acute illness and residual pulmonary dysfunction. In conclusion, these findings provide new evidence for frequent cognitive sequelae of COVID-19 and indicate an association with the severity of the lung affection and potentially restricted cerebral oxygen delivery. Further, the associations with quality of life and functioning call for systematic cognitive screening of patients after recovery from severe COVID-19 illness and implementation of targeted treatments for patients with persistent cognitive impairments.
KW - Cognitive impairment
KW - COVID-19
KW - Pulmonary dysfunction
KW - Quality of life
U2 - 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2021.03.019
DO - 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2021.03.019
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33823427
AN - SCOPUS:85103734282
VL - 46
SP - 39
EP - 48
JO - European Neuropsychopharmacology
JF - European Neuropsychopharmacology
SN - 0924-977X
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ID: 288919288