{"id":124178,"date":"2021-06-23T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/covid-19-tied-to-brain-tissue-loss-early-research-suggests"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:23:04","slug":"covid-19-tied-to-brain-tissue-loss-early-research-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/covid-19-tied-to-brain-tissue-loss-early-research-suggests","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 tied to brain tissue loss, early research suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-tied-to-brain-tissue-loss-early-research-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 was linked to brain tissue loss in a U.K. brain imaging study, according to early findings published June 15 in the preprint server <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.06.11.21258690v1.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medRxiv<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The study involved 782 participants, with researchers comparing brain scans from before and after COVID-19 infection. Researchers pulled data from the U.K. Biobank, which scanned more than 40000 participants before the pandemic hit the region, allowing them to invite participants back for a second imaging visit.<\/p>\n<p>Findings showed tissue loss in certain parts of the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 was linked to brain tissue loss in a U.K. brain imaging study, according to early findings published June 15 in the preprint server medRxiv. The study involved 782 participants, with researchers comparing brain scans from before and after COVID-19 infection. Researchers pulled data from the U.K. Biobank, which scanned more than 40000 participants before [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}