Corona increases the risk of Alzheimer's - "Unfortunately, no scaremongering" warns Lauterbach on Twitter

Created: 06/29/2022, 08:41

By: Martina Lippl

Covid-19 likely increases risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, according to a new study.

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Covid-19 increases the risk of Alzheimer's, according to a new study from Denmark.

But this also applies to other viral diseases.

Lauterbach responded promptly on Twitter.

Berlin – A corona infection can lead to neurological diseases in humans.

Doctors recognized this connection early on.

Danish scientists have now found that Covid-19 increases the risk of

,

and an

(cerebral infarction).

However, research also shows that post-COVID-19 there was

higher risk of these neurological disorders than other respiratory diseases, such as

or community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

Lauterbach on Covid-19 and Alzheimer's: "Unfortunately, no scaremongering"

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) immediately caught the eye of reports from the latest Covid study from Denmark.

"Unfortunately, no scaremongering," tweeted Lauterbach.

“It is good to point out this danger.

Getting infected preventively in the summer isn't smart.

Adapted vaccines are coming.” Apparently, the 59-year-old wants to shake up the population tired of corona.

Also urgently warn again against intentional infection with the corona virus in summer.

A recommendation of this kind has been circulating in recent weeks and has caused heated discussions in some cases.

The explosive steak comparison by virologist Christian Drosten seems to have been forgotten by some.

The body's immune system is complex.

A viral infection can be harmless, but sometimes life-threatening.

The new study from Denmark shows that Covid-19 patients can develop neurological problems.

Doctors should keep an eye on their patients.

However, respiratory diseases such as

or community-acquired bacterial pneumonia also increase the risk of neurological disease.

Covid-19: Researchers evaluate data from almost a million patients

As part of the study, the researchers evaluated electronic patient files from more than half of the Danish population.

The analysis was based on data from 919,731 inpatients and outpatients between February 2020 and November 2021. Of these, 43,376 people tested positive for Corona.

At the same time, the research team evaluated data from influenza patients who had contracted flu or bacterial pneumonia in a corresponding period (February 2018 to November 2019) before the pandemic.

Is Covid-19 a risk for certain neurological diseases?

• The study includes 919,731 people (February 2020 to November 2021): 43,262 people with a positive Covid test without a history of influenza A/B.

  876,356 without a positive Covid test.

• 1,474 people with community-acquired pneumonia with no history of Covid-19 and 8,102 with influenza A or B (February 2018 to November 2019).

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Corona infection increases risk of Alzheimer's?

The result of the new study from Denmark

"Apart from ischemic stroke, most neurological disorders appear to be no more common after Covid-19 than after influenza or community-acquired bacterial pneumonia," said Pardis Zarifkar, lead author of the study and researcher at the Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital in a press release.

Earlier studies have found a connection between Covid-19 and neurological diseases, says Zarifkar.

It has so far remained unclear whether Covid-19 also affects the frequency of certain diseases.

"These results will help improve our understanding of the long-term effects of Covid-19 on the body and the role that infections play in neurodegenerative diseases and stroke," the study author notes.

• Covid-19 is associated with a threefold increased risk of

  Alzheimer's

  .

• Covid-19 doubles risk of

  Parkinson's disease

  .

• The risk of a

  cerebral infarction

  was increased by a factor of 2.7 after Covid-19.

• The risk of

  cerebral hemorrhage

  was 4.8 times higher after Covid-19.

on June 23 

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