Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021
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The study examined health records of more than 230,000 Covid-19 patients, mostly from the US
Contracting Covid-19 is robustly associated with an increased risk of developing mental health and neurological conditions in the six months after a diagnosis, a study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford looked at the TriNetX electronic 2020 health records of more than 230,000 Covid-19 patients, mostly from the US.
For 13% of people it was their first recorded neurological or psychiatric diagnosis, researchers found.
The findings also suggested that the incidence of such conditions rose with the severity of a coronavirus case.
It found that a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis occurred in 39% of those who were admitted to hospital, 46% of those in intensive care, and 62% in those who had encephalopathy - described as delirium and other altered mental states - during their Covid-19 infection.
Covid-19 linked to increased risk of psychiatric and neurological conditions
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Covid-19 linked to increased risk of psychiatric and neurological conditions
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