Females appear more sensitive to brain tissue inflammation. Here’s what might help.
Scientists have recently reported that women are more likely than men to experience long COVID after an infection, and are significantly more likely to experience related complications in the brain and suffer mood disorders. Females also appear likely to have poorer post-concussion (aka mild TBI) outcomes than their male counterparts.
What do they have in common? Inflammation. A 2021 study published in Frontiers in Neurology reported that women had higher levels of inflammation and more impaired cerebral blood flow post mTBI than the men in the study. When scientists perform functional Neurocognitive Imaging (fNCI) on COVID long-haulers, they see the same type of dysfunction as those suffering from post-concussion syndrome, which they believe is the result of coronavirus disrupting blood flow to the brain and triggering systemic inflammation that also causes neuroinflammation.
