Healio (5/16, Downey) reports, “Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 infection and those who survived other severe acute respiratory infections were at similarly higher risk for subsequent neuropsychiatric diagnoses and treatment, researchers reported.” For the study published in JAMA Psychiatry, “researchers assessed new-onset diagnoses of neuropsychiatric conditions – anxiety, dementia, psychosis, depression and bipolar disorder – or first prescription for relevant medications, including antidepressants and antipsychotics, during 12 months of follow-up after hospital discharge.”
Related Links:
— “Neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 similar to other respiratory infections “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, May 16, 2022