Study of unvaccinated people hospitalized with COVID-19 bolsters theory that blood clots may contribute to cognitive problems months later
, along with excess clotting, in hospitalized patients. Prepandemic research has also connected high fibrinogen to cognitive problems and dementia, Taquet says, which indicates it may be a general marker of cognitive deficits. D-dimer showed no such association with these deficits outside COVID-19 patients, perhaps suggesting a role specific to coronavirus infections, he adds.
Nevertheless, the findings are likely to spur more research into these clotting proteins and the biological pathways theykeeps popping up in all these studies,” says Deeks, who is helping run a Long Covid study at UCSF. After reading the new paper, he
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