A newly released study has revealed that those who suffer from the effects of long COVID-19 are at an chronic . The -based study, which was recently in The Lancet: Psychiatry, found that a group of elderly patients who have been battling the effects of the disease for at least two to three years have begun to see their cognitive scores decline significantly. The study revealed that one in nine people surveyed found that their intelligence quotient (IQ) had dropped more than 30 points.
The also reported that those who had left their due to poor health were the ones who associated closer to cognitive deficits. “The findings show that problems affecting attention and memory, as well as fatigue, depression, and anxiety, continue to afflict some people even three years after COVID-19 infection, especially those who had not recovered well by six months," one of the study's co-authors, Paul Harrison, said. Harrison went on to add that the deficits were not due to aging.
Harrison continued: “These results apply only to people who needed acute hospital admission when they had COVID-19. We suspect, but do not know, whether similar kinds of problems might affect the much larger number of people who did not get hospitalized.” The study noted that those who had been before getting COVID-19 have shown an acceleration of their memory loss.
Those who were healthy reportedly have an increased risk of developing new-onset dementia after their infections. The researcher's concern is not j.
