Acute blood biomarker profiles predict cognitive deficits 6 and 12 months after COVID-19 hospitalization.

"code availability the code to reproduce the analyses can be accessed via https://osf io/kzhfs/ ."

"Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"This work was funded by MQ Mental Health Research, the Wolfson Foundation, UK Research and Innovation (grant MR/V027859/1), National Institute of Health Research (grant COV0319) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (grants BRC-1215-20005 and NIHR203316). M.T. is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and NIHR Oxford Health BRC Senior Research Fellow. The authors acknowledge the eDRIS team (Public Health Scotland) for their support in obtaining approvals, the provisioning and linking of data and facilitating access to the National Safe Haven and N. Curry for valuable input. P.J.H. and M.T. were granted unrestricted and free access to the TriNetX Analytics Network, with no constraints on the analyses done nor the decision to publish. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the UK NHS, the NIHR or the UK Department of Health. L.P.H. is supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre."