PARIS: One in three people who recover from 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-19 takes on survivors.
Authors said the research, printed on Wednesday 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.
Incidence of neurological disorders such as brain haemorrhage , stroke and dementia 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 a 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"."As a result, health care systems need to be resourced to deal with the anticipated need, both within primary and secondary care services."
All foreigners entering Singapore should have mental assessment.
新加坡5万多外劳，那岂不是有1.6万人可能有精神健康问题吗？天天都有十几宗输入个案都是外国人，平均一个月就是300多宗输入个案了？新冠疫情都一年了，那岂不是有3000多输入确诊个案？1000多人是精神有问题的？
美国一大堆人得过新冠肺炎的！怪不得那么多枪击案！
那些患上新冠肺炎的人都有精神问题？
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