American researchers revealed, Thursday, that people who had previously been infected withCOVID-19 They are more likely to have a range of brain injuries a year after they recover than people who have never had the coronavirus.
The year-long study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, focused on evaluating the brain health of patients with 44 different disorders using the medical records of millions of veterans in the United States.
Patients who had previously contracted COVID-19 had 7% more brain and other neurological disorders than a similar group of patients.
Veterans who never fell ill. 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.
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.
Al-Ali and his colleagues studied at Washington University School of Medicine in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs in the St. Louis Healthcare System.
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 contract 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.
Memory disturbances, commonly referred to as brain fog, were the most common symptom. By comparing the different groups, I concluded
The study found that people with COVID-19 were 77 percent more likely to have memory problems.
Also, people who had contracted the virus were 50 percent more likely to have a stroke caused by blood clots, compared to the group that was never infected.
In addition, ex-patients with COVID-19 are 80% more likely to have an electroencephalogram, 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.