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We aimed to analyze cognitive decline during the pandemic year in people evaluated in a memory clinic in northern Italy, the epicenter of COVID-19 spread.<\/p>\n<h3>Methods<\/h3>\n<p>A single-center retrospective study was carried out, including individuals with annual follow-up evaluated in three different years (2020-GROUP, 2019-GROUP, 2018-GROUP). We performed an intergroup comparison of cognitive decline over a one-year follow-up, and an intragroup comparison in the 2020-GROUP to analyze the five-year cognitive decline trajectory, as measured by the MMSE.<\/p>\n<h3>Results<\/h3>\n<p>The 2020-GROUP showed a significant loss of MMSE points per year in the considered follow-up period compared with the 2019-GROUP and 2018-GROUP (p = 0.021). Demographics, clinical features, and the other analyzed variables, including rate of diagnosis, therapy, and comorbidities, did not significantly differ between groups. The five-year cognitive decline trajectory confirmed a significant worsening of cognitive decline between 2019 and 2020 (p &lt; 0.001), while the decrease in MMSE scores was not statistically significant between previous time points.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusions<\/h3>\n<p>COVID-19 pandemic measures have induced a significant worsening of cognitive decline in people with dementia, needing more careful assistance to minimize the adverse effects of social isolation in case of future lockdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categoria-pubblicazioni":[5054],"class_list":["post-8223","pubblicazione","type-pubblicazione","status-publish","hentry","categoria-pubblicazioni-neuroaging"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Cognition of People with Dementia | Aging Project Uniupo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"COVID-19 pandemic worsened cognitive decline in people with dementia. 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