Covid-19: Increased risk of some neurological and psychiatric disorders remains two years after infection, study finds

Disorders such as psychosis, dementia, seizures, and “brain fog” remain more common for as much as two years after covid-19 infection than after other respiratory infections, a large follow-up study has found.1However, it found that the increased risks of depression and anxiety seen in an earlier study disappeared within 2-3 months, with no overall excess of cases over those two years.Researchers from the University of Oxford used data from the US based TriNetX electronic health record network to investigate 14 neurological and psychiatric diagnoses over a two year period. The records from 1.25 million patients who had received a covid-19 diagnosis were matched for 82 confounding variables with a cohort of 1.25 million patients who had other respiratory infections.Children were found to have twice the risk of developing epilepsy or seizures: 260 of 10 000 developed the condition within two years after covid-19 infection, compared with 130 in 10 000…
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