Covid-19 patients are at increased risk of dementia, brain fog, and other neurological conditions within up to 2 years after infection. A major new study shows that
Researchers at the University of Oxford looked at the health records of more than 1.25 million patients, analyzing data for 14 neurological and psychiatric diagnoses, and found that she had various types of Covid infections. was analyzed.
They were more likely to be diagnosed with a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions in a two-year period, with the worst being twice as likely to occur after Covid than other respiratory infections. He found it three times higher.
The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, also showed that the child had twice the increased risk of epilepsy and seizures as she did. to 130 out of 10,000 after another respiratory infection, according to the paper.
But Covid-19 most neurological and psychiatric psychiatric likely added that the researchers found more children than adults.
Professor Paul Harrison, lead author of the study, said: } Conditions associated with Covid-19 infection are likely to occur for a substantial period of time after the pandemic subsides.
20} "Our research will be used to follow Covid-19 to understand why this happens, and what can be done to prevent or treat them. It underscores the need for research. Conditions.Dr. Rachel Sumner, Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University, was not involved in the study, but noted that the study "will be used worldwide." "represents another layer of potential future harm to our health services."
She added: A condition highlighted in the study.
“Patients who have experienced Covid and who continue to develop some of these disorders are experiencing delays in diagnosis and treatment by health systems struggling to cope with both Covid infections and undertreatment. Patient waiting lists are also of concern.”
Data on neurological and psychiatric diagnoses were analyzed. Adults aged ~64 years and 242,101 adults aged 65 years and older were included. These individuals were matched with an equal number of patients with another respiratory infection to serve as a control group.
In this study, adults aged 18 to 64 who had Covid-19 for up to 2 years had previously had Brain Fog Muscular disease compared to people with other respiratory infections during the same time period who were shown to be at increased risk . Adults aged and and older had higher rates of brain fog, dementia, and psychotic disorders.
Among those aged 65 years and older, 450 per 10,000 of her were newly diagnosed with dementia within 2 years of Covid infection, compared with 330 for her in the control group.
Dr. Max Take, who led the study's analysis, said it was "very clear that this is not a tsunami of new dementia cases," but that the paper's findings were "not to be ignored." "Given the seriousness of the consequences of a dementia diagnosis," he added.
Professor Harrison said the number of new neurological and psychiatric diagnoses after Covid-19 infection was "not trivial" and "mental health problems." “It needs to be set in view of the growing burden,” said a problem that may have occurred across the entire population due to the pandemic.
Paul Garner, Emeritus Professor of Evidence Synthesis in Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, cautioned: In my opinion, it is more likely related to the social upheavals and dystopias we have lived through than the direct effects of the virus.”
In this study, adults It was also found that the risk of being diagnosed with depression or anxiety increased initially after Covid-19, but increased relatively quickly, It returned to the same level in patients infected with another respiratory pathogen. Children were not thought to be at increased risk of anxiety and depression after COVID-19.
On the other hand, the appearance of the Delta variant was associated with significantly higher 6-month risk of anxiety, insomnia, cognitive impairment, epilepsy or seizures, and ischemic stroke, but a lower risk of dementia when compared to those diagnosed with Covid-19 just prior to the delta wave . Omicron leads to similar risks, the researchers added.
"Our findings shed new light on the effects on long-term mental and brain health in people after Covid-19 infection." I'm guessing," he said Dr. Taquet.
"The good news is the relative increased risk of depression and anxiety after Covid-19 . and short-lived children with these diagnoses no increased risk . It is worrisome that other conditions in continue to be diagnosed more frequently than even after Covid-19: 2 to years later."
Acknowledging the limitations of this study, the researchers said the results likely underestimated people with mild or asymptomatic Covid. They added that the paper did not explain how Covid increases the risk of developing neurological and psychiatric conditions.