Posted on 04/07/2021 9:17:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
One in three people who overcome COVID-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long-COVID takes on survivors.
Authors said the research, printed Wednesday in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, proved that COVID-19 patients were significantly more likely to develop brain conditions than those suffering from other respiratory tract infections.
Studying the health records of more than 230,000 patients who had recovered from COVID-19, they found that 34 percent were diagnosed with a neurological or psychiatric condition within six months.
The most common conditions were anxiety (17 percent of patients) and mood disorders (14 percent).
For 13 percent of patients the disorders were their first diagnosis of a mental health issue.
Incidence of neurological disorders such as brain hemorrhage (0.6 percent), stroke (2.1 percent) and dementia (0.7 percent) was lower overall than for psychiatric disorders but the risk for brain disorders was generally higher in patients who had severe COVID-19.
The authors also examined data from more than 100,000 patients diagnosed with influenza and more than 236,000 diagnosed with any respiratory tract infection.
They found there was overall a 44 percent greater risk of neurological and mental health diagnoses after COVID-19 than after flu, and a 16 percent higher risk than with respiratory tract infections.
Paul Harrison, lead author from the University of Oxford, said that while the individual risk of neurological and psychiatric orders from COVID-19 was small, the overall effect across the global population could prove to be "substantial".
"Many of these conditions are chronic," he said.
"As a result, health care systems need to be resourced to deal with the anticipated need, both within primary and secondary care services."
'Severe impact' Patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 were at great risk of developing long-term conditions, according to the analysis.
For example, 46 percent of patients who needed intensive care were diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric conditions within six months of recovery.
The data showed 2.7 percent of people needing intensive care suffered a subsequent brain hemorrhage, compared to 0.3 percent of people who weren't hospitalized.
And nearly 7 percent of those needing ICU care suffered a stroke, compared with 1.3 percent of patients who didn't.
Writing in a linked comment article, Jonathan Rogers from University College London, said further research was needed on the long-term neurological and psychiatric outcomes among COVID-19 patients.
"Sadly, many of the disorders identified in this study tend to be chronic or recurrent, so we can anticipate that the impact of COVID-19 could be with us for many years," said Rogers, who was not involved in the study.
"It is clear from this study that the impact COVID-19 is having on individuals mental health can be severe," said Lea Milligan, CEO of the MQ Mental Health research group.
"This is contributing to the already rising levels of mental illness and requires further, urgent research."
In the past I would readily accept the findings of Medical Journals, but many formerly reputable journals have fallen to the point where politics now dictates their conclusions, particularly pertaining to Covid19, so I take "findings" with a grain of salt.
Yes, one-third have issues, and 99% of these are Leftist Harris/Biden voters...
They’ll want vaccine reparations next!
Exactly. I got the vaccine and I personally know scores of other people who got the vaccine and none of them had any problems with it so all this talk about vaccine side effects is ridiculous too.
lol If there had been treatments for these conditions they would have been taken 25 or 100 years ago as much as today. Just in place of prescription drug abuse or street drugs that was so rampant for ‘nervous conditions’ in the ‘50’s and before.
Pure Fearporn.
The grocery store pharmacy by me does them too.
My daughter-in-law’s brother-in-law also had some, what he describes as “brain fog”, lasting for several months so far. He is mid 40’s, I think. Fairly overweight, but otherwise in decent health. I think he had Covid in December.
Hoping you continue to recover!
That requires honest, factual peer review, which isn’t the norm in many scientific circles if it doesn’t fit a narrative.
Oh look at that one interesting statistic: 13% is a first time diagnosis. That means 83% of 33% of COVID survivors not 33%. Deceptive.
Having avoided COVID by hermitting at home, any psychiatric problems I have are clearly my own.
6 Months Before Surviving COVID, 2 in 3 Had Neurological or Psychiatric Problems
Right now I’ve got the image of Christopher Walken demanding “More fear porn. More fear porn.”
[[One in three people who overcome COVID-19 suffer from a ... psychiatric diagnosis six]]
Swell, so now 1-3 will become democrats?
What is known about past pandemics/viruses concerning this issue? Did they also cause neurological or psychological prob,problems, for those who got it? Is this common for viruses like this?
[[For example, 46 percent of patients who needed intensive care were diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric conditions within six months of recovery]]
Their bodies went through one awful battle with the virus as it fought to survive the severe cases. Some real horror stories about people that got it severely but survived, barely. No wonder there is lasting issues fro that battle.
Although, it should be pointed out that even with flu, some folks get it very severely too, and barely survive, (we just rarely hear of those cases, the news media doesn’t focus on them like they did with this plandemic), but according to this study, apparently they weren’t as affected?
[[Part of the neurosis should be laid at the feet of the media who have hammered people over the head for over a year about Covid]]
Very very true. The media is to blame for so much of the anxiety and fear that people had, unnecessarily, for a virus that is 99.8% survivable
Oh, and I suppose psychological problems couldn’t be a result of enforced lockdown, unemployment, and fear.
The gaslighting continues.
Just in time for the presidency in 2024.
Even more intensive isolation because you have “the plague” explains a lot of this. Fear of death is another.
Does that include asymptomatic cases - or does it refer exclusively to ICU cases?
Regards,
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