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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:13AM (7 children)
I've tripped and skinned my shin, just like Joe did. But I didn't take preemptive offense that people would interpret it as a sign of my diminished capacity. Completely ignoring his bumbling and stumbling while trying to read from a prompter or notes, is much more troubling.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @12:26AM (6 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:39AM (5 children)
Don't forget, we're still waiting for that State Of The Union Address we were promised.
Maybe they made a mistake, and Nancy tore it up before reading, instead of after. Either that, or Joe's attack dog ate it.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @01:57AM (4 children)
Not bad! I particularly like the dog eating the speech, nice dig!
Bet you're wishing Biden was fat or smelly or something right about now, huh.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:10AM (3 children)
No, I wish that of his handlers. And his son Hunter. And Barry O.
I wish Joe would go away quietly and with dignity and have a grand retirement. I was the primary caregiver when a family member slipped into dementia. It gets so amazingly sad toward the end, and that comes upon one so quickly, starting right about where Joe is now. [Insert "September Song" reference here.]
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @02:48AM (2 children)
You know... I hadn't looked at it that way... I had no idea! I'm so sorry you're having to relive these fears after four years ! ! ;)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:35AM (1 child)
When Joe first promised to solve every major issue in his first 100-days, I was betting he wouldn't make it. Now, it seems he really isn't involved in much of it.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @04:15AM
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