Medical Xpress August 1, 2024
Many people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry, titled “Cognitive and psychiatric symptom trajectories 2-3 years post-COVID-19 hospitalization: a longitudinal prospective cohort study.”
Conducted by a group of researchers across the UK led by the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester, the research highlights the persistent and significant nature of these symptoms as well as the emergence of new symptoms years after COVID-19 was first present.
The research was conducted with 475 participants (as part of the PHOSP-COVID study) who were invited to complete a set of cognitive tests via their computer and to report their symptoms...