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Study shows a third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders :
One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said.
Researchers who conducted the analysis said it was not clear how the virus was linked to psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression, but that these were the most common diagnoses among the 14 disorders they looked at.
[...] The new findings, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34 per cent had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesses within six months.
The Lancet article includes this disclaimer:
Big-data studies of this kind have intrinsic limitations, even when drawing on 81 million people, 236 379 of whom had COVID-19. In this pandemic context, not all individuals who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (particularly those with mild or asymptomatic illness) will be diagnosed, which could result in some contamination of the comparison groups.
The question: will severe, enduring, and less common conditions such as psychoses behave more like neurological disorders or common mental disorders? Among the COVID-19 cohort in this study, a first diagnosis of a psychotic disorder was substantially more common in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
Lungs, hearts and brains..
Journal Reference:
Jonathan P Rogers. A longer look at COVID-19 and neuropsychiatric outcomes, The Lancet Psychiatry (DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00120-6)
Previously:
Experts Warn Coronavirus May Cause 'Wave' of Neurological Conditions Including Parkinson's Disease
2020-06-15 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories
(Score: 2) by Tokolosh on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:00PM (5 children)
Americans are the most weak-minded people I have ever had the misfortune to meet. There is no padding soft enough to protect them from reality. Since 9/11 the population has been suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Their motto should change to "Out of an abundance of caution!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:08PM
You mean just the white ones, of course? Otherwise your statement would be racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @04:21AM (3 children)
Thats what USA type people have become.
In my father's era and before it was different. Those people worked very
hard and built the infrastructure of this country. Now the lazy use and abuse
what was passed down to them. Pretty sad how fast a good thing can end
up in the toilet.
...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @05:10AM (2 children)
But you see, infrastructure spending is *Communism.* St. Reagan told us so, so it must be true. 40+ years of infrastructure rot sucks, yes, but let's not lose sight of when and why the country's focus shifted away from it.
Know who had some good ideas about infrastructure? A guy named Franklin Roosevelt... :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @05:46AM (1 child)
The kind she said to avoid in the locker room.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @09:04PM
That's what she said!