and focused the study The year-long study, published in Nature Medicine, assessed the brain health of patients with 44 different disorders using the medical records of millions of veterans in the United States..
Lead researcher Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of the University of Washington School of Medicine said in a statement that the results demonstrate the devastating long-term effects of COVID-19 infection.
The results of the study concluded that:
- Memory disturbances, commonly referred to as brain fog, were the most common symptom. By comparing the different groups, the study concluded that people with COVID-19 are 77 percent more likely to have memory problems.
- People who have contracted the virus are 50 percent more likely to have a stroke caused by blood clots, compared to a group that has never been infected..
- Previous patients with COVID-19 were 80% more likely to have a brain disorder, 43% more likely to have mental health problems, such as anxiety or depression, 35% more likely to have headaches, and 42% more likely to have movement disorders, such as tremors, compared to the other groups.
Al-Ali and his colleagues at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in cooperation with the Department of Veterans Affairs in St. Louis Healthcare System, studied the medical records of 154,000 US veterans who tested positive for COVID-19 from March 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021..
They compared these records with data from 5.6 million patients who did not have COVID-19 during the same time frame, and another group of 5.8 million people in the period before the virus arrived in the United States..
Patients who had previously contracted COVID-19 suffered from brain and other neurological disorders, seven percent more than a similar group of veterans who had never had the disease. The research team said that the results of the study can be linked to the injury of nearly 6.6 million Americans with brain disabilities related to their infection with Covid-19.
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