09-05-2025
Weight gain linked to long Covid neurological symptoms
Medical Watch Digest for May 7
The impact of weight on covid weight may contribute to long covid.
Being overweight or obese is associated with neurological symptoms including headaches, vertigo, sleep problems and depression.
The Journal Plos one reports covid patients who are overweight and obese develop persistent, debilitating symptoms following the covid infection. They face a long road to complete covid recovery and suffer multiple organ system disruptions involving respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological and mental health.
Long covid also leads to smell and taste disorders, sleep disturbances and anxiety.
Eating disorders are a hidden health crisis on college campuses according to Washington University researchers.
They say students mask their struggles, hiding the prevalence of the dangerous and even deadly ailments like anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. And doctors say eating disorders do not discriminate.
Their study of nearly 30,000 students from 26 colleges, funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health found the risk for eating disorders was similar for white, Black, Asian and Latino students.
Experts say they never imagined the magnitude of the crisis on college campuses. And they urge parents to talk with their children about healthy eating.
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Alzheimer's knowledge is a double edged sword.
With greater ability to detect impending Alzheimer's, patients have the ability to intervene, even if there is no cure. So researchers set out to see if knowledge is power when it comes to the mind robbing disease.
The Rutgers University study found the Alzheimer's realization brings unrelated health struggles.
Knowing the risk for Alzheimer's reduces the motivation toward healthy behavior leading a person to spiral. Healthy habits fall by the wayside, even though adopting healthy lifestyle changes could help the scientists measured amyloid plaques in the brain to figure out Alzheimer's risk for study participants.
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