People who have had COVID-19 are at a higher risk of intellectual fitness and neurological disorders, in addition to seizures, dementia, psychotic disorders and mental confusion, two years after infection, according to a giant published Wednesday in the medical journal Lancet Psychiatry, sheds more light. on the long-term consequences of the virus for physical fitness as countries around the world prepare to live with it.
An investigation of the electronic physical activity records of nearly 1. 3 million other people diagnosed with COVID-19 over a two-year period suggests that there is an increased risk of situations such as dementia, seizures or epilepsy, mental confusion and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia arising to other people who had other respiratory infections.
The study, which used the most common U. S. fitness records, was conducted in the U. S. The U. S. Department of Health and Consumer Disease, also found that adults have an increased risk of depression or anxiety after Covid, this was short-lived and faded after a month or two.
Children were also more likely to be diagnosed with certain situations, such as psychotic disorders after COVID-19, the researchers said, and were “especially at risk for epilepsy or seizures. “
However, children were less likely to be diagnosed after COVID-19 than adults and did not have an increased risk of anxiety or depression even some time after infection, the researchers said.
There is a greater threat of neurological or psychiatric disorders after the onset of the delta variant, the researchers found, with a greater threat of anxiety (10% greater threat compared to those diagnosed before the delta wave), insomnia (19%), brain fog (38%) and seizures (26%) in the six months after Covid (dementia, with a 40% reduced threat compared to those diagnosed before the delta wave, a notable exception).
The dangers of the omicron wave were also high, the researchers said, warning that the strong strain the virus puts on fitness systems may continue even if the variants are less severe in other respects.
It’s news that the biggest threat of anxiety and depression after covid is short-lived in adults and absent in children, said Oxford University researcher Dr Max Taquet, who led the analyses. Taquet added that it is “concerning” that other situations such as dementia and seizures continue to be diagnosed at higher rates, even two years after infection. However, Taquet said it is “important to note that the overall threat of those situations is still low. “
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, evidence has emerged that survivors are at increased risk of developing various neurological and psychiatric conditions. This study marks the first large-scale study to examine those threats on a longer timescale and sheds the long-term new light on intellectual and neurological fitness. The study is also the first to look at long-term threats to children, as well as the first to explore how those threats are replaced with the emergence of new variants. The impact of Covid on mental health goes far beyond the infection itself and the points during the pandemic, adding financial constraints, the death or illness of loved ones, task replacements and interruptions to heal and help networks, have all contributed to an increase in other people in difficulty.
92. 9 million. This is the number of COVID-19 cases shown in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Given the magnitude of this figure, it possibly wouldn’t come with many other people who haven’t. were tested or asymptomatic and accounted for no more than one million covid deaths; even a slightly increased threat of psychiatric or neurological disorders after infection can mean thousands, if not millions, of other people with health problems. The researchers did not assess how for a long time, other people were in poor health after diagnosis, but even a brief illness can have a big impact given the number of other people involved.
The mechanisms underlying the accumulation of psychiatric and neurological disorders after Covid are unknown. The researchers said they remain to be decided in long-term studies.
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