One in five patients with COVID-19 is affected by psychiatric illness

About a year after the release of the new Coronerius SARS CoV-2, we have learned that aggressive pathogen affects not only lungs and respiratory ways, but also the heart, blood vessels, nerves, kidneys and skin.

In July the world was shocked by the news of British neurologgers that even mild - symptoms patients or those who have recovered from disease, SARS CoV-2 can cause significant damage to the brain and the central nervous system, which, in turn, can cause psychosis, paralysis, and strokes - disease that can be known very late.

Scientists at Oxford Center for Health Research have found that in one fifth of the patients, COVID-19 may cause psychiatric problems.

A first diagnosis of psychiatric problems is in 6 %s.

The study was based on electronic health files of 70 million anonymous patients from the United States.

Among them, 62,000 patients with COVID-19 were ill in a mild state.

They checked if they had a show of psychiatric problems between two weeks and three months after they received diagnosis with COVID-19.

According to the study, at 18,1 % of patients with COVID -19 - about one in five patients - psychic diseases were diagnosed in this period of time and 5,8 - % of patients were first seen in a mental illness.

To ensure that psychic diseases are directly linked to COVIED-19, data comparisons were made to six other diseases of the same period - flu, other respiratory infections, skin infections, heart disease, kidneystone, and bone failure.

These diseases diagnosed 2.5 to 3.4 of patients with psychiatric problems.

According to doctors, this discovery was unexpected and needs to be studied further, while showing mental concerns should be added to the list of risk factors from COVID-19.

British researchers also warn against overestimating this data because there are no acceptable explanations for some of the abnormalities. /Kp