A six-month neurological and psychiatric study released by The Lancet Psychiatry found that 33.62 percent of ex-COVID-19 patients had a neurological or psychological disorder in the following six months after COVID-19, APA reports quoting Sputnik..
The diagnosis estimate was much higher for patients admitted to intensive care units (ITU), with the percentage rising to 46.42 percent. The study analyzed the outcome in 236,379 mostly US patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
Researchers examined the incidences of 14 neurological and psychiatric outcomes, including dementia, anxiety disorders, insomnia and Parkinson's disease. High percentages of anxiety disorder (19.15 percent) and psychotic disorder (2.77 percent) were recorded, however, doctors have said they are unsure as to why patients who were previously ill with COVID-19 experienced such after-effects.
"Most diagnostic categories were more common in patients who had COVID-19 than in those who had influenza ... and those who had other respiratory tract infections," the study explains.
The study also showed that, among patients admitted to ITU with severe COVID-19, seven percent experienced a stroke within six months of their admittance and two percent were diagnosed with dementia.
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