34% of COVID-19
Survivors Develop, ‘Psychiatric
and Neurological
Complications,’, Study Says.
A study published in ‘Lancet Psychiatry’ has
made an alarming discovery about COVID-19.
The study involved the health records of
more than 236,000 COVID-19 patients. .
Researchers discovered that 34%
of COVID-19 survivors were diagnosed with a
neurological or psychological condition
within six months of their infection. .
Survivors were most commonly
diagnosed with anxiety (17%), followed
closely by mood disorders (14%).
Maxime Taquet, co-author of the study,
noted that the rate of diagnoses seemed to correlate
with the severity of the COVID-19 illness. .
That rate increased progressively
as the severity of the Covid-19
illness increased. If we look at
patients who were hospitalized
that rate increased to 39%, Maxime Taquet, via CNN.
Taquet also pointed out two important findings
in their study. COVID-19 did not increase the risk
of Parkinson’s disease or Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Both of those conditions are neurological conditions that we know are sometimes associated with viral infection. We did not find that they were more common after Covid-19 and after the other respiratory tract infections that we looked at, Maxime Taquet, via CNN