531430login-checkPost-COVID Neurologic, Psychiatric Symptoms May Persist for 2 Years |
— Risk profiles, trajectories vary for children and adults
Up to 2 years after infection, people who had COVID-19 continued to face increased risks of neurologic and psychiatric sequelae compared with people who had other respiratory infections, a retrospective study showed.
Health records of nearly 1.3 million people — mostly in the U.S. — showed that risks of cognitive deficit (brain fog), dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures were increased at 2 years for adults who had COVID, reported Paul Harrison, FRCPsych, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues. Read more in MedPage Today.
531430login-checkPost-COVID Neurologic, Psychiatric Symptoms May Persist for 2 Years |