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According to a study by a research center at the University of Oxford, cited by The Guardian, one in five people who survived the coronavirus are diagnosed with a mental illness three months after contracting the virus.
Be it anxiety, depression or insomnia, this is the conclusion of the study by the University of Oxford, which analyzed the cases of 62,000 people infected with covid-19, who were not admitted or needed to go to the emergency room.
The incidence of a diagnosis of mental illness between 14 and 90 days after covid-19 infection was 18.1% and in 5.8% of the cases the diagnosis of mental illness was verified for the first time in the patients , a much larger number than other pathologies, such as influenza, kidney stones, bone fractures or gallstones. In these cases, the number of people with mental problems for the first time after contracting these diseases varies between 2.5% and 3.4%.
Research also reveals that people with a pre-existing mental illness are 65% more likely to contract the new virus than others who do not have any psychiatric problems, even taking into account their age, sex, race and physical condition. One of the study’s authors, Max Taquet, even told The Guardian that “having a psychiatric illness should be added to the list of risk factors for covid-19,” adding, however, that “this discovery was unexpected and requires investigation. “
“It is also not implausible that covid-19 could have any direct effect on the brain or mental health. But I think that has yet to be proven, “said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at Oxford.
One of the most alarming findings of this research was that, after three months of covid-19 diagnosis, the cases of dementia in patients doubled, compared to other diseases.
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