A new study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry reports that one in every three patients recovering from corona has suffered from a mental or psychiatric disorder.
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One out of every three patients recovering from coronavirus has suffered from a psychiatric disorder within six months. This has been revealed in a study conducted on 2,30,000 patients. Most of the patients involved in the study were US citizens. Scientists say that patients may have mental and neurological problems due to the epidemic.
The researchers doing the analysis said that it is not yet clear how the virus is linked to psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression. But these were the most common diseases among those 14 diseases, which were seen in patients. Researchers said post-covid cases such as stroke, dementia, and neurological disorder were extremely rare. But these were especially important for patients suffering from corona.
Experts worried about mental illness in patients
Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford who co-led the study, said that personal risk is low for most disorders, but it can have a huge impact on the entire population. Health experts are concerned about the evidence of high risk of mental and mental health ailments among people recovering from COVID-19.
Symptoms of psychiatric illness in 34 percent of corona recovery patients
The new study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry analyzes the health records of 2,36,379 patients. Of this, 34 per cent of the patients had neurological or psychiatric disease within six months. Scientists said that disorder was found to be more important in COVID-19 recovery patients than in patients recovering from flu and other respiratory diseases. This indicated that the corona has more influence on the patients.
These symptoms were also seen in patients
The study said that anxiety was the most common symptom of 17 per cent and mood disorder 14 per cent. After being severely infected with corona, seven percent of the patients admitted to the ICU had a stroke risk within six months. At the same time, symptoms of dementia were also seen in two percent of the patients admitted in ICU. Independent experts say that these results are intimidating and worrying.
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