Health: Covid harms brain health; May cause pneumonia, cardiac arrest

New Delhi: Brain function is impaired in patients following severe COVID-19, but no more than that of people hospitalised with illnesses like pneumonia and cardiac arrest with similar severity, according to new research.

Researchers found that patients hospitalised due to COVID-19 had worse cognitive, neurological and psychiatric effects than healthy participants after an 18-month follow-up period.

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However, the researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, also found that these deficits in brain function were not significantly different to those in "carefully matched" patients requiring hospitalisation for pneumonia, myocardial infarction (cardiac arrest), or non-COVID-19, intensive care-requiring illness.

They say that long-term associations with brain health might not be specific to COVID-19 but associated with overrall illness severity and hospitalisation. (with PTI inputs)

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