One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days - study
Source: Reuters
One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days - study
Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days. Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems, and the researchers also found significantly higher risks of dementia, a brain impairment condition.
People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater risk of mental health problems, and our findings ... show this to be likely, said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at Britains Oxford University. Doctors and scientists around the world urgently need to investigate the causes and identify new treatments for mental illness after COVID-19, Harrison said. (Health) services need to be ready to provide care, especially since our results are likely to be underestimates (of the number of psychiatric patients), he added.
The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, analysed electronic health records of 69 million people in the United States, including more than 62,000 cases of COVID-19. In the three months following testing positive for COVID-19, 1 in 5 survivors were recorded as having a first time diagnosis of anxiety, depression or insomnia. This was about twice as likely as for other groups of patients in the same period, the researchers said.
The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without. Mental health specialists not directly involved with the study said its findings add to growing evidence that COVID-19 can affect the brain and mind, increasing the risk of a range of psychiatric illnesses.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mental-illness/one-in-five-covid-19-patients-develop-mental-illness-within-90-days-study-idUSKBN27P34L
RockRaven
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(38,468 posts)Persecution complex?
TigressDem
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(130,862 posts)C Moon
(12,212 posts)I hope you bastard traitors die a long and suffering death of whatever it is that takes you away from us.
I am really starting to hate Moscow Mitch more that Trumpit's close, but I see Moscow Mitch as the Cheney in this nightmare.
Has the U.S. ever had a senate majority leader who did not give a flying shit about the U.S.A.?
It's very obvious, McConnell is compromised by Russia.
Trump.
The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without. Mental health specialists not directly involved with the study said its findings add to growing evidence that COVID-19 can affect the brain and mind, increasing the risk of a range of psychiatric illnesses.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)As if he weren't crazy enough...
Frightening...seems like he is going full out now.
Liberty Belle
(9,534 posts)I would imagine this study looked only at those who had symptoms, and perhaps only those ill enough to be hospitalized.
If so, that's a small fraction of total patients. It's still troubling, but maybe not quite as dire as this headline appears.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated many coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday, her father and the police said.
Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview.
The elder Dr. Breen said his daughter had contracted the coronavirus but had gone back to work after recuperating for about a week and a half. The hospital sent her home again, before her family intervened to bring her to Charlottesville, he said.
Dr. Breen, 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said. But he said that when he last spoke with her, she seemed detached, and he could tell something was wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/nyregion/new-york-city-doctor-suicide-coronavirus.html
I guess she didn't really survive Covid-19.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)Think of the high suicide rate among combat vets. She WAS a combat vet in the war on this virus. She witnessed horrible things. She tried hard to save people and couldn't. She was probably hungry and sleep-deprived the whole time because under Trump, essential medical personnel were not supported and funded properly.
JCMach1
(27,555 posts)2. I have to take BP meds daily to keep my heart rate in a safe range.
3. Lost some control of body temperature. I regularly and randomly drop to 95.x
4. I developed hidradenitis suppurativa under both my armpits. Yuck, and ugg.
5. Just found out today I may have develop diabetes due to Covid, or the steroids needed to save my life.
6. Crushing fatigue every day.
7. Covid brain fog/dementia
It is hard for me to even see a way forward to work. I may very well be facing permanent disability.
SunSeeker
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I really do feel so lucky to have made it at all.
However, I want people to know it's NOT just the flu and things can be very bad, even for younger, healthy people.
Even people with 'mild' cases sometimes have serious post-Covid issues.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)It just shows such ignorance and/or reckless disregard for their fellow Americans.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)I contract some unknown virus back in the 70s that left me with CFIDS. (Crushing fatigue, brain fog, a temperature regulation problem, drenching night sweats, and an immune dysfunction.) And I thought I had it bad.
Hope your problems diminish over time, as mine seem to have - after decades.
What really sucks is that assholes thought I was faking it. Unless you live in the midst of RW assholes, that won't happen to you.
Good luck!
niyad
(113,253 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)Stay away from Republicans.
Far, far away.
Botany
(70,489 posts)And this is all on Donald Trump, the Russians that installed him, and his republican enablers.
That virus would have been stooped dead in Wuhan if Hillary hadn't had the Presidency stolen from her.
BumRushDaShow
(128,815 posts)By Lynne Adkins KYW Newsradio 1060
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) COVID-19 is known to cause severe respiratory issues, but anywhere between 30% to 80% of patients also have neurological problems.
Headache, dizziness, confusion a whole battery of symptomology that points that the brain may be affected, said Dr. Servio Ramirez, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
His research shows that the spike proteins on COVID-19 are able to pierce the blood-brain barrier and make it leak. That barrier protects the brain, keeping it safe from toxins that could cause brain infections. All satellites, whether it's Voyager or Sputnik, have those long antenna-type things. The virus has something similar that helps it bind to target cells. So, the spike protein seems to engage the vasculature of the brain and just make it leakier, he explained.
At this point, Ramirez said the long-term effects of that leaky blood-brain barrier aren't known.
https://www.radio.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/temple-researchers-say-covid-19-may-cause-brain-issues
October 29, 2020
Like a key, SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) attaches to specific molecules on the host cell surface, opening gateways into the cell interior. Viral entry into host cells triggers a prodigious immune response. Much of this battle is waged within the lungs, which explains why many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have severe respiratory symptoms.
Respiratory symptoms, however, are only part of the story. Increasing evidence points toward blood vessel inflammation as having a crucial impact on the severity of COVID-19. In addition, anywhere from 30 to 80 percent of patients experience neurological symptoms, including dizziness, headache, nausea, and loss of concentration. These symptoms suggest that SARS-CoV-2 also affects cells of the central nervous system.
While there is no evidence yet that the virus invades the brain, new work by scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University shows that the spike proteins that extrude from SARS-CoV-2 promote inflammatory responses on the endothelial cells that form the blood-brain barrier. The study, published in the December print issue of the journal Neurobiology of Disease, is the first to show that SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins can cause this barrier to become leaky, potentially disrupting the delicate neural networks within the brain.
Previous studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells by using its spike proteins to bind to the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) on the host cell surface, explained Servio H. Ramirez, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and principal investigator on the new study. ACE2 is expressed on endothelial cells, which form the inner lining of blood vessels, and serves a central role in mediating different functions of the cardiovascular system. According to Dr. Ramirez, since ACE2 is a major binding target for SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs and vasculature of other organs in the body, tissues that are behind the vasculature, that receive blood from affected vessels, are at risk of damage from the virus.
Read more: https://www.templehealth.org/about/news/sars-cov-2-spike-proteins-disrupt-the-blood-brain-barrier-potentially-raising-risk-of-neurological-damage-in-covid-19-patients
3825-87867
(840 posts)Does anyone else have a problem with a (foreign) company getting the medical records of 69 million Americans but only 62,000 Covid patients? And we worry about Russian, Iranian, Chinese and kids in their basements hacking ANY of our data?
Wonder just how safe that data on 69 million Americans is in the data sieves of a "foreign" research corporation?
Welcome to Open Source American Privacy.
BTW this is being asked by someone who has been in Computer Security since the early 80s.
FakeNoose
(32,626 posts)... so Chumpcare would never have covered it.