Correlations between vascular properties and mental dysfunctions in long-COVID-19 support the vascular depression hypothesis

• Autorzy: Gólczewski Tomasz , Plewka Katarzyna , Michnikowski Marcin , Chciałowski Andrzej

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DOI

10.1016/j.bbe.2024.07.001

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Objectives: Vascular depression hypothesis (VDH) bases on co-occurrence of vascular and mental dysfunctions in advanced age; however, there may be still a controversy about whether there is some direct association between vascular and mental properties or the co-occurrence is only a statistical artifact caused by commonness of these dysfunctions in the elderly. COVID-19 gave opportunity to test VDH under conditions different from aging. Methods: 25 patients were examined 3-6 month after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Subjective worsening of mental functions, presumably caused by the disease, was quantified with three psychometric tests. Blood flow wave-forms were obtained for the left brachial and common carotid arteries. The waveform shape changes continuously with age; therefore, an individual shape can be characterized by the index WA being the calendar age (CA) of the average healthy rested subject having the most similar shape (consequently, in healthy rested subjects WACA = 0, in average). The mathematical functional analysis was used to calculate WA. Results: Brachial WA-CA = 13 yrs, in average (p < 0.00005; Cohen’s d = 0.99), and was correlated with tests scores (r = 0.55, 0.65, 0.46). Mean carotid WA-CA were smaller (7.2 and 1.6) but they were also correlated with the scores (right: r = 0.44, 0.55, 0.32; left: r = 0.49, 0.51, 0.38). Scores of two tests were inversely correlated with the systolic (r = -0.54, - 0.58) and diastolic (r = -0.46, - 0.56) pressures. Conclusions: Since neither vascular nor mental problems are common after COVID-19, these relatively high correlations indicate that vascular and mental properties are not independent, i.e., they support VDH. Note that this not only concerns cerebral vasculature.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

aging process; arterial blood flow waveform; arterial stiffness; intracranial hypertension; mental dysfunction; wave reflection

PL

proces starzenia; przepływ krwi; nadciśnienie wewnątrzczaszkowe; dysfunkcja mentalna; odbicie fali

• Wydawca: Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Elsevier
• Czasopismo: Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 44, no. 3
• Strony: 461--469
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 47 poz., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Gólczewski Tomasz

• Department of Modeling and Supporting of Internal Organs Functions, Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ks. Trojdena 4 st., 02-109 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Plewka Katarzyna

• Department of Infectious Diseases and Allergology, Military Institute of Medicine, Szaser´ow 128 st., 04-349 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Michnikowski Marcin

• Department of Modeling and Supporting of Internal Organs Functions, Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ks. Trojdena 4 st., 02-109 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Chciałowski Andrzej

• Department of Infectious Diseases and Allergology, Military Institute of Medicine, Szaser´ow 128 st., 04-349 Warsaw, Poland

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