Veronica Danquah, MD⚕️
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Veronica Danquah, MD⚕️
@DrVeronicaD
✝️🇬🇭🇨🇦in 🇺🇸PGY-3 Family Medicine Resident Physician.🚺&🌍Health advocate. Lover of ☕️ 🍰✈️⚖️💃🏽@UofT👩🏾🎓LiveLoveLOL✨

The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure 😡A USA study that really frightens me! In-utero COVID-19 exposure associates with early brain alterations and toddler developmental delays, warranting long-term monitoring of these children. ➡️They conducted a prospective longitudinal study with 142 mother-baby dyads(mother-infant pairs): 39 exposed to COVID-19 in utero (2020–2022) vs. 103 pre-pandemic controls (2016–2019). ➡️Neonatal brain imaging used quantitative 3D volumetric MRI (2 weeks corrected age). ➡️Toddler assessments (2 years) included Bayley Scales (BSID-III) for cognition/social-emotion and ITSEA for behaviours. ➡️Exposure linked to reduced neonatal brain volumes in cortical/subcortical gray matter, cerebral white matter, and left hippocampus (all significant after FDR correction). ➡️At age 2, exposed toddlers showed lower cognition and social-emotional scores (BSID-III), plus higher internalizing behaviours (ITSEA). ➡️Reduced cortical gray matter partially explained lower cognition (21.9%); lower cognition mediated increased internalizing behaviours (61.0%). ➡️Conclusion: 1. “Children exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in utero display lower cognitive abilities than children who had not been exposed, mediated in part by the neonatal cortical gray matter volumes.” 2. “Cognitive ability in toddlers also mediated the association between in utero SARS-CoV-2 exposure and their early social-emotional development.” 3. “These findings highlight the need for continued surveillance to best identify and provide early interventions for at-risk children and provide new insights regarding prenatal exposures on early fetal programming." 4. “Further studies into the longitudinal effects of this exposure are currently ongoing.” So, frightening and making me angry: In-utero exposure to COVID-19 is associated with reduced neonatal brain volumes and persistent neurodevelopmental delays in cognition and social-emotional functioning by age 2. ‼️Please mothers, get vaccinated and AVOID sarscov2! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…







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