New Study: Psychological Issues Like Anxiety and Depression May Play a Role in Long COVID

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New Study: Psychological Issues Like Anxiety and Depression May Play a Role in Long COVID
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According to new research from UCLA, individuals who reported experiencing cognitive difficulties, such as memory problems, during the COVID-19 pandemic are more likely to have persistent physical symptoms of the disease compared to those who did not report such cognitive issues. Over a third of

New UCLA research suggests that people who perceived cognitive difficulties, such as memory problems during COVID, were more likely to experience lingering physical manifestations of the disease., individuals who reported experiencing cognitive difficulties, such as memory problems, during thepandemic are more likely to have persistent physical symptoms of the disease compared to those who did not report such cognitive issues.

The findings indicate that psychological issues such as anxiety or depressive disorders may play a part in some people who are experiencing long COVID, technically known as post-COVID-19 condition, or PCC. Patients were surveyed by telephone at 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days following hospital discharge or, in the case of non-hospitalized patients, after the date of a positive COVID test to ascertain if they felt their health was back to normal. They were asked if they experiencing physical symptoms of long COVID.

The researchers found that 276 of the patients surveyed perceived during the acute illness or the following weeks that they had cognitive difficulties. In addition, these patients were twice as likely as those without perceived cognitive deficits to report also experiencing physical symptoms at 60 and 90 days.

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