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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 Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @02:09AM (3 children)
And that is your weakness: you are looking for a leader, a single charismatic focus, when the world does not and cannot work this way. The real meat of politics is grinding drudgery. The "leader" is a shiny bobblehead distraction. It is a symbol, for the symbol-minded (that's you).
One reason I still voted Democrat despite a serious dislike of Biden bordering on hatred for his past record is because I knew Biden himself wasn't actually going to do much. It's the cabinet and administration that are, arguably, more important than the president, and while I'm none too thrilled with some of his picks there either, he's making it a point NOT to surround himself with crazies, incompetents, and incompetent crazies like Trump did.
You stupid goddamn tribals are so fixated on your father-figures, your objects of worship, that you can't even understand something as simple as this, and you insist that people who vote differently from you are just like you but oppositely-polarized. No, cupcake, we are dealing with *reality.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:27AM (2 children)
We're all alike, of course. My concern isn't about HbAiRdReInS- Administration figureheads, but the people behind the curtain. You're going to love the communist paradise they've scheduled, after they pass HR1 and ensure that no Patriotic American is ever elected again.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @05:07AM
If you actually think Trump was a patriot you are beyond the use of reason. Your mouth is moving and words are coming out, even complete coherent sentences, but they have no referent in reality. This means you are insane.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:59AM
If Biden and Harris were anything like communists, I would have voted for them. Too bad they're just Republicans that don't care about gays.