1 in 3 Covid-19 survivors suffer mental, neurological problems: Study

[bart12]

Covid just a mild flu?? @Leongsam

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...ors-suffer-mental-neurological-problems-study


PARIS (AFP) - One in three people who overcome Covid-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long-Covid takes on survivors.


Authors said the research, printed Wednesday (April 7) in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, proved that Covid-19 patients were significantly more likely to develop brain conditions than those suffering from other respiratory tract infections.


Studying the health records of more than 230,000 patients who had recovered from Covid-19, they found that 34 per cent were diagnosed with a neurological or psychiatric condition within six months.


The most common conditions were anxiety (17 per cent of patients) and mood disorders (14 per cent).


For 13 per cent of patients the disorders were their first diagnosis of a mental health issue.


Incidence of neurological disorders such as brain haemorrhage (0.6 per cent), stroke (2.1 per cent) and dementia (0.7 per cent) was lower overall than for psychiatric disorders but the risk for brain disorders was generally higher in patients who had severe Covid-19.

The authors also examined data from more than 100,000 patients diagnosed with influenza and more than 236,000 diagnosed with any respiratory tract infection.


They found there was overall a 44 per cent greater risk of neurological and mental health diagnoses after Covid-19 than after flu, and a 16 per cent higher risk than with respiratory tract infections.


Paul Harrison, lead author from the University of Oxford, said that while the individual risk of neurological and psychiatric orders from Covid-19 was small, the overall effect across the global population could prove to be "substantial".

"Many of these conditions are chronic," he said.

"As a result, health care systems need to be resourced to deal with the anticipated need, both within primary and secondary care services."

'Severe impact'

Patients hospitalised with severe Covid-19 were at great risk of developing long-term conditions, according to the analysis.

For example, 46 per cent of patients who needed intensive care were diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric conditions within six months of recovery.


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The data showed 2.7 per cent of people needing intensive care suffered a subsequent brain haemorrhage, compared to 0.3 percent of people who weren't hospitalised.


And nearly 7 per cent of those needing ICU care suffered a stroke, compared with 1.3 per cent of patients who didn't.


Writing in a linked comment article, Jonathan Rogers from University College London, said further research was needed on the long-term neurological and psychiatric outcomes among Covid-19 patients.


"Sadly, many of the disorders identified in this study tend to be chronic or recurrent, so we can anticipate that the impact of Covid-19 could be with us for many years," said Rogers, who was not involved in the study.


"It is clear from this study that the impact Covid-19 is having on individuals mental health can be severe," said Lea Milligan, CEO of the MQ Mental Health research group.


"This is contributing to the already rising levels of mental illness and requires further, urgent research."

 

[Leongsam]

The anxiety levels are a result of all the scaremongering by the media which causes those that a gullible to be plunged into a state of perpetual fear.

However the rich and powerful who caught Covid and got better are all fine because they know the truth about Covid.

 

[tiongsrshit]

tiong is to blame. All is because of the Tiong

 

[capamerica]

The anxiety levels are a result of all the scaremongering by the media which causes those that a gullible to be plunged into a state of perpetual fear.

However the rich and powerful who caught Covid and got better are all fine because they know the truth about Covid.

Wrong. Yet again. Its breathtaking just how bad at this you are. I have never seen someone fail so badly at one topic.

https://consumer.healthday.com/sb-4...al-health-issues-months-later-2651367902.html

April 7, 2021
1 in 3 COVID Survivors Struggle With Mental Health Issues Months Later


WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are seeing such cases around the world: About a third of COVID-19 patients go on to develop "long-haul" neurological or psychiatric conditions months after being infected, new research shows.

The findings suggest a link between COVID-19 and a higher risk for later mental health and neurological disorders, researchers report.

The new analysis of data from more than 236,000 COVID-19 survivors focused on 14 neurological and mental health disorders. It found that 34% of patients were diagnosed with such disorders in the six months after infection with the new coronavirus.

Most commonly, these disorders ranged from anxiety disorders to substance misuse disorders, insomnia, brain hemorrhage, stroke, and (much more rarely) dementia.

For 13% of those patients, it was their first such diagnosis.

"Sadly, many of the disorders identified in this study tend to be chronic or recurrent, so we can anticipate that the impact of COVID-19 could be with us for many years," Jonathan Rogers, of University College London, wrote in an editorial accompanying the new study. Both were published April 6 in The Lancet Psychiatry.

One U.S. expert who was not part of the study agreed.

"Services and resources will need to be allocated for this care," said Dr. Andrew Rogove, medical director of stroke services at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y.

The new study was led by Paul Harrison of the University of Oxford in England. His team looked at electronic health records to track outcomes for 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States.

About a third did go on to experience some kind of neurological or mental health issue within six months of their coronavirus infection. Anxiety (17%), mood disorders (14%), substance abuse disorders (7%) and insomnia (5%) were the most commonly diagnosed disorders, the team said.

Overall rates of neurological problems were much lower, including 0.6% for brain hemorrhage, 2.1% for ischemic stroke, and 0.7% for dementia.

Neurological conditions were more common in patients who had been seriously ill with COVID-19. For example, among patients admitted to intensive care, 7% had a stroke and almost 2% were diagnosed with dementia, Harrison's group reported.

Neurological and mental health diagnoses were more common in COVID-19 patients than in flu or respiratory tract infection patients over the same time period. That suggests COVID-19 has an impact that's unique among viral infections, the study authors said.

"These are real-world data from a large number of patients. They confirm the high rates of psychiatric diagnoses after COVID-19, and show that serious disorders affecting the nervous system [such as stroke and dementia] occur, too," Harrison said in a journal news release. "While the latter are much rarer, they are significant, especially in those who had severe COVID-19."

Just how COVID-19 affects the brain remains unclear. "We now need to see what happens beyond six months. The study cannot reveal the mechanisms involved, but does point to the need for urgent research to identify these, with a view to preventing or treating them," study co-author Max Taquet, from the University of Oxford, said in the release.

According to Rogove, the study highlights an "increased risk for neurological disease and diagnosis in COVID-19 infected persons with further increased risk in hospitalized and critically ill COVID-19 infected patients."

All of this means "there will be a great need for more neurological care following COVID infection," Rogove added.

Brittany LeMonda is senior neuropsychologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Reading over the findings, she theorized that "the virus may 'unmask' or accelerate the presentation of certain underlying psychiatric and neurologic conditions."

In other words, "it's possible ... that an individual has underlying risk factors predisposing them to development of these conditions and the virus stresses the system enough so that these symptoms become clinically significant," LeMonda said.

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on the long-term effects of COVID-19.


SOURCES: Brittany LeMonda, PhD, senior neuropsychologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Andrew Rogove, MD, PhD, medical director, stroke services, South Shore University Hospital, Bay Shore, N.Y.; The Lancet Psychiatry, news release, April 6, 2021

 

[TuckFrump]

 

[gingerlyn]

How to get cpf money like that ?

 

[laksaboy]

Any reports of certain footballers who performed poorly after contracting Covid?

 

[glockman]

Without covid, I am already a mentally unstable person. If kena covid, I will lagi kee seow! I think I better go get vaccinated.

 

[mojito]

That is a natural process called aging. Every one is one year older now of course health problems are to be expected.

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

Without covid, I am already a mentally unstable person. If kena covid, I will lagi kee seow! I think I better go get vaccinated.

then u kana sinovac how?
haaaa

 

[shockshiok]

The anxiety levels are a result of all the scaremongering by the media which causes those that a gullible to be plunged into a state of perpetual fear.

However the rich and powerful who caught Covid and got better are all fine because they know the truth about Covid.

https://abc11.com/covid-survivor-anxiety-brain-disease-psychiatric-disorder/10494640/

1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors suffers 'brain disease,' study finds
CNNWire
By Ryan Prior
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 10:45AM

s many as one in three people infected with Covid-19 have longer-term mental health or neurological symptoms, researchers reported Tuesday.

They found 34% of Covid-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.

 

[Leongsam]

https://abc11.com/covid-survivor-anxiety-brain-disease-psychiatric-disorder/10494640/

1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors suffers 'brain disease,' study finds
CNNWire
By Ryan Prior
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 10:45AM

s many as one in three people infected with Covid-19 have longer-term mental health or neurological symptoms, researchers reported Tuesday.

They found 34% of Covid-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.

Don't worry too much about this. When the scaremongering finally stops all these neurological issues will disappear.

 

[shockshiok]

Don't worry too much about this. When the scaremongering finally stops all these neurological issues will disappear.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health...tion-in-the-next-six-months-large-study-finds

1 in 3 COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a neuropsychiatric condition in the next six months, large study finds
Health Apr 7, 2021 12:12 PM EDT
Six months after being diagnosed with COVID-19, 1 in 3 patients also had experienced a psychiatric or neurological illness, mostly mood disorders but also strokes or dementia, a large new study shows.
About 1 in 8 of the patients (12.8%) were diagnosed for the first time with such an illness, most commonly anxiety or depression. Compared to control groups of people who had the flu or other non-COVID respiratory infections, first-ever neuropsychiatric diagnoses were almost twice as high.
The study, published Tuesday in The Lancet Psychiatry, used real-world health data on millions of people to gauge the incidence of 13 brain disorders. Anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders were most common, but the researchers also found worrying, if lower, rates of serious neurological complications, especially in patients who had been severely ill with COVID-19. In all COVID-19 patients, 0.6% developed a brain hemorrhage, 2.1% an ischemic stroke, and 0.7% dementia.
“We need urgent research to better understand how and why does this occur in patients with COVID-19 and how they can be treated and [how to] prevent it,” Max Taquet, a clinical fellow in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a study co-author, said on a call with reporters on Tuesday. “But we think that regardless of the explanation, health services need to be prepared for the increased demand that this data is showing.”
The size of the study lends confidence to its findings, which confirm what has been hinted in smaller studies, including earlier work from the Oxford group. The researchers analyzed electronic health records of 81 million U.S. patients (both insured and uninsured), finding 236,379 people who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and comparing them to three cohorts of similar people: one cohort had the flu, another had another respiratory illness such as sinusitis or pneumonia, and one cohort included people who were hospitalized for unrelated conditions such as bone fractures or gallstones. The researchers hoped that comparing the COVID group to the others would help isolate COVID-19 as a cause and tease out its effects on the brain.
READ MORE: Long after the fire of a COVID-19 infection, mental and neurological effects can still smolder
After accounting for patients’ age, sex, ethnicity, and existing health conditions, patients overall had a 44% higher risk of neurological and mental health diagnoses after COVID-19 than after flu, and a 16% higher risk after COVID-19 than after other respiratory tract infections.
There were two exceptions: The researchers did not see increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, a movement disorder, or Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is a rare disorder that shows up after some viral infections as tingling and weakness when the immune system attacks nerves.
Allison Navis, assistant professor in the division of neuro-infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, sounded a note of caution. The lead clinical neurologist at Mount Sinai’s post-COVID clinic, she was not involved in the Lancet study.
“It does highlight that there is something unique going on with COVID,” she told STAT. “And the 12.8% who have a new diagnosis of something neuropsychiatric can sound very sensational. That 12.8% encompasses depression and anxiety, so it’s extremely important to not minimize that and not make that sound like a lesser diagnosis at all, but the more severe things like strokes are still fairly uncommon. I don’t want people thinking that 1 in 10 people get a stroke with COVID.”
The new study reinforces previous research that showed some brain disorders increased with the severity of illness, going up in people who needed to be hospitalized and rising further in people who needed intensive care. While 33.6% of people developed a neuropsychiatric illness overall, that risk grew to 46.4% among COVID patients treated in an ICU.
What’s new is the distinction between neurological and psychiatric complications. People with very severe COVID-19 had a higher risk of complications like stroke or dementia, but people who developed anxiety or depression spanned the spectrum of illness severity.
While the study did not examine the mechanisms that might explain neuropsychiatric disorders associated with the virus, the authors did speculate in the call with reporters that if patients know that they have COVID-19, that and other stressors might contribute to a psychiatric illness. “It could be psychological factors and biological factors and psychosocial factors, such as, for instance, the need to isolate and the loss of income as a result of that,” Taquet said.
It’s easier to tie neurological disorders to the virus’ effects on the brain. Scientists believe the virus can enter the brain through the olfactory bulb, where taste and smell are decoded. Inflammation throughout the body also harms blood vessels in the brain, and can lead to stroke-causing blood clots, delirium, or dementia.
READ MORE: When COVID-19 hits the brain, it can cause strokes, psychosis and a dementia-like syndrome, new survey shows
While the medical records could tell the researchers whether someone had previously suffered a stroke or been diagnosed with dementia, they couldn’t surmise whether someone was going to have a recurrence anyway or whether COVID-19 caused it, Masud Husain, professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at Oxford and a study co-author, warned. Longer follow-up will be needed to answer that question, but the signal was too strong to ignore, he said.
Husain also cautioned that the numbers they reported could be an underestimate if they don’t include people who were infected with COVID but did not test positive for it, or if people had no symptoms that drove them to seek medical care. On the flip side, patients with COVID-19 might be more likely to have a neurological and psychiatric disorder diagnosed simply because they were receiving more medical attention compared to patients with the flu or other respiratory infections, Taquet pointed out.
This was not a study of long-COVID, said Paul Harrison, professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a study co-author, referring to the constellation of lingering symptoms that overlap with some problems caused by the neuropsychiatric illnesses described in the current paper. But the need for more research and continued clinical care is the same.
“Sadly, many of the disorders identified in this study tend to be chronic or recurrent, so we can anticipate that the impact of COVID-19 could be with us for many years,” Jonathan Rogers and Anthony David of University College London wrote in a commentary appearing with the Lancet study.
This article is reproduced with permission from STAT. It was first published on April 6, 2021. Find the original story here.

 

[Leongsam]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health...tion-in-the-next-six-months-large-study-finds

1 in 3 COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a neuropsychiatric condition in the next six months, large study finds
Health Apr 7, 2021 12:12 PM EDT
Six months after being diagnosed with COVID-19, 1 in 3 patients also had experienced a psychiatric or neurological illness, mostly mood disorders but also strokes or dementia, a large new study shows.
About 1 in 8 of the patients (12.8%) were diagnosed for the first time with such an illness, most commonly anxiety or depression. Compared to control groups of people who had the flu or other non-COVID respiratory infections, first-ever neuropsychiatric diagnoses were almost twice as high.
The study, published Tuesday in The Lancet Psychiatry, used real-world health data on millions of people to gauge the incidence of 13 brain disorders. Anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders were most common, but the researchers also found worrying, if lower, rates of serious neurological complications, especially in patients who had been severely ill with COVID-19. In all COVID-19 patients, 0.6% developed a brain hemorrhage, 2.1% an ischemic stroke, and 0.7% dementia.
“We need urgent research to better understand how and why does this occur in patients with COVID-19 and how they can be treated and [how to] prevent it,” Max Taquet, a clinical fellow in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a study co-author, said on a call with reporters on Tuesday. “But we think that regardless of the explanation, health services need to be prepared for the increased demand that this data is showing.”
The size of the study lends confidence to its findings, which confirm what has been hinted in smaller studies, including earlier work from the Oxford group. The researchers analyzed electronic health records of 81 million U.S. patients (both insured and uninsured), finding 236,379 people who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and comparing them to three cohorts of similar people: one cohort had the flu, another had another respiratory illness such as sinusitis or pneumonia, and one cohort included people who were hospitalized for unrelated conditions such as bone fractures or gallstones. The researchers hoped that comparing the COVID group to the others would help isolate COVID-19 as a cause and tease out its effects on the brain.
READ MORE: Long after the fire of a COVID-19 infection, mental and neurological effects can still smolder
After accounting for patients’ age, sex, ethnicity, and existing health conditions, patients overall had a 44% higher risk of neurological and mental health diagnoses after COVID-19 than after flu, and a 16% higher risk after COVID-19 than after other respiratory tract infections.
There were two exceptions: The researchers did not see increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, a movement disorder, or Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is a rare disorder that shows up after some viral infections as tingling and weakness when the immune system attacks nerves.
Allison Navis, assistant professor in the division of neuro-infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, sounded a note of caution. The lead clinical neurologist at Mount Sinai’s post-COVID clinic, she was not involved in the Lancet study.
“It does highlight that there is something unique going on with COVID,” she told STAT. “And the 12.8% who have a new diagnosis of something neuropsychiatric can sound very sensational. That 12.8% encompasses depression and anxiety, so it’s extremely important to not minimize that and not make that sound like a lesser diagnosis at all, but the more severe things like strokes are still fairly uncommon. I don’t want people thinking that 1 in 10 people get a stroke with COVID.”
The new study reinforces previous research that showed some brain disorders increased with the severity of illness, going up in people who needed to be hospitalized and rising further in people who needed intensive care. While 33.6% of people developed a neuropsychiatric illness overall, that risk grew to 46.4% among COVID patients treated in an ICU.
What’s new is the distinction between neurological and psychiatric complications. People with very severe COVID-19 had a higher risk of complications like stroke or dementia, but people who developed anxiety or depression spanned the spectrum of illness severity.
While the study did not examine the mechanisms that might explain neuropsychiatric disorders associated with the virus, the authors did speculate in the call with reporters that if patients know that they have COVID-19, that and other stressors might contribute to a psychiatric illness. “It could be psychological factors and biological factors and psychosocial factors, such as, for instance, the need to isolate and the loss of income as a result of that,” Taquet said.
It’s easier to tie neurological disorders to the virus’ effects on the brain. Scientists believe the virus can enter the brain through the olfactory bulb, where taste and smell are decoded. Inflammation throughout the body also harms blood vessels in the brain, and can lead to stroke-causing blood clots, delirium, or dementia.
READ MORE: When COVID-19 hits the brain, it can cause strokes, psychosis and a dementia-like syndrome, new survey shows
While the medical records could tell the researchers whether someone had previously suffered a stroke or been diagnosed with dementia, they couldn’t surmise whether someone was going to have a recurrence anyway or whether COVID-19 caused it, Masud Husain, professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at Oxford and a study co-author, warned. Longer follow-up will be needed to answer that question, but the signal was too strong to ignore, he said.
Husain also cautioned that the numbers they reported could be an underestimate if they don’t include people who were infected with COVID but did not test positive for it, or if people had no symptoms that drove them to seek medical care. On the flip side, patients with COVID-19 might be more likely to have a neurological and psychiatric disorder diagnosed simply because they were receiving more medical attention compared to patients with the flu or other respiratory infections, Taquet pointed out.
This was not a study of long-COVID, said Paul Harrison, professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a study co-author, referring to the constellation of lingering symptoms that overlap with some problems caused by the neuropsychiatric illnesses described in the current paper. But the need for more research and continued clinical care is the same.
“Sadly, many of the disorders identified in this study tend to be chronic or recurrent, so we can anticipate that the impact of COVID-19 could be with us for many years,” Jonathan Rogers and Anthony David of University College London wrote in a commentary appearing with the Lancet study.
This article is reproduced with permission from STAT. It was first published on April 6, 2021. Find the original story here.

There is not point in posting the same fear mongering article over and over again.

 

[shockshiok]

There is not point in posting the same fear mongering article over and over again.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210407/1-in-3-covid-survivors-have-ongoing-mental-health-issues#1

1 in 3 COVID Survivors Have Ongoing Mental Health Issues
By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporters
WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are seeing such cases around the world: About a third of COVID-19 patients go on to develop "long-haul" neurological or psychiatric conditions months after being infected, new research shows.
The findings suggest a link between COVID-19 and a higher risk for later mental health and neurological disorders, researchers report.
The new analysis of data from more than 236,000 COVID-19 survivors focused on 14 neurological and mental health disorders. It found that 34% of patients were diagnosed with such disorders in the six months after infection with the new coronavirus.
Most commonly, these disorders ranged from anxiety disorders to substance misuse disorders, insomnia, brain hemorrhage, stroke, and (much more rarely) dementia.
For 13% of those patients, it was their first such diagnosis.
"Sadly, many of the disorders identified in this study tend to be chronic or recurrent, so we can anticipate that the impact of COVID-19 could be with us for many years," Jonathan Rogers, of University College London, wrote in an editorial accompanying the new study. Both were published April 6 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
One U.S. expert who was not part of the study agreed.
"Services and resources will need to be allocated for this care," said Dr. Andrew Rogove, medical director of stroke services at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y.
The new study was led by Paul Harrison of the University of Oxford in England. His team looked at electronic health records to track outcomes for 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States.

About a third did go on to experience some kind of neurological or mental health issue within six months of their coronavirus infection. Anxiety (17%), mood disorders (14%), substance abuse disorders (7%) and insomnia (5%) were the most commonly diagnosed disorders, the team said.
Overall rates of neurological problems were much lower, including 0.6% for brain hemorrhage, 2.1% for ischemic stroke, and 0.7% for dementia.
Neurological conditions were more common in patients who had been seriously ill with COVID-19. For example, among patients admitted to intensive care, 7% had a stroke and almost 2% were diagnosed with dementia, Harrison's group reported.

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[glockman]

then u kana sinovac how?
haaaa

Then I will probably kee seow and love the CCP.

 

[eatshitndie]

they should just die. huge number of cases are obese, niggers, and hispanics anyway. while i moan the loss of collateral damage in whites and asiatics, 36.9% going kaput is a great corrective event in human evolution. die please die.

 

[eatshitndie]

We do not kill only minorities nor fat people. The point of our virus to to kill everyone, and yes that means you too. If you go, it will be for the greater good. We look forward to your death if you are in our HQ America. We have many people dying there everyday. Why not go somewhere and walk around without a mask on, and breathe very deeply?

And praise be to you for leaving us. We look forward to it.

i’ve achieved all objectives in this life and am ready to die. death has no bearing on me. my fear is life among low lives.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

We do not kill only minorities nor fat people. The point of our virus to to kill everyone, and yes that means you too. If you go, it will be for the greater good. We look forward to your death if you are in our HQ America. We have many people dying there everyday. Why not go somewhere and walk around without a mask on, and breathe very deeply?

And praise be to you for leaving us. We look forward to it.

Please hurry up with it. When I am dead it won't matter