{"id":235516,"date":"2026-04-18T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/long-term-cognitive-ability-and-academic-achievement-after-childhood-severe-malaria"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:06:00","slug":"long-term-cognitive-ability-and-academic-achievement-after-childhood-severe-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/long-term-cognitive-ability-and-academic-achievement-after-childhood-severe-malaria","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Cognitive Ability and Academic Achievement After Childhood Severe Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-term-cognitive-ability-and-academic-achievement-after-childhood-severe-malaria.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among children with a history of CerebralMalaria or severe malarial anemia, long-term follow-up demonstrated lower overall cognitive ability and lower math achievement compared with unaffected children when assessed 4 to 15 years after the index episode of Malaria.<\/p>\n<p>Attention and reading scores did not differ, and outcomes among children with other forms of severe malaria were similar to unaffected children.<\/p>\n<p>These findings indicate that specific severe malaria phenotypes are associated with persistent cognitive and academic effects into later childhood and adolescence, with implications for long-term follow-up and supportive services.<\/p>\n<p>ESCMIDGlobal2026.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This descriptive analysis uses a subset of data from the Malarial Impact on Neurobehavioral Development (MIND) cohort study to assess whether severe malaria in Ugandan children is associated with long-term cognitive impairment or decreased academic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among children with a history of CerebralMalaria or severe malarial anemia, long-term follow-up demonstrated lower overall cognitive ability and lower math achievement compared with unaffected children when assessed 4 to 15 years after the index episode of Malaria. Attention and reading scores did not differ, and outcomes among children with other forms of severe malaria [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235516","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}