NBC News (9/7, Bendix) reports “people who felt stressed, anxious, lonely, depressed or worried about COVID before getting infected were at higher risk of developing long-term symptoms from their illness,” according to results from a survey study of “nearly 55,000 people in the United States and Canada.” The study published online in JAMA Psychiatry “showed that people who reported psychological distress before they got infected had a 32% to 46% increased risk of long COVID,” and people “who reported high levels of two or more types of psychological distress…had a 50% increased risk.”
STAT (9/7, Trang) reports the researchers “found that psychological stressors…were more predictive of…patients’ likelihood of experiencing long COVID than classically associated physical factors.”
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— “Stress, anxiety and depression may increase the risk of long Covid, study finds “Aria Bendix, NBC News, September 7, 2022