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COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated Brain Aging Even in People Who Didn’t Get Virus: Study

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COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated Brain Aging Even in People Who Didn’t Get Virus: Study

An undated electron microscope image shows the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (yellow) emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. NIAID-RML/AP/The Canadian Press

Brain aging appears to have accelerated by several months during the COVID-19 pandemic, even in people who did not get sick from the virus, according to a new study.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications on July 22, found that in 2021 and 2022, brain scans from a large UK database showed signs of aging, including brain shrinkage, even in individuals who were never infected.

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