According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 20% of Americans inflamed by the coronavirus have evolved with a long Covid, explained by having Covid-related symptoms, such as fatigue, brain or respiratory fog, cardiovascular, neurological or digestive. symptoms for more than a month after the initial infection. Although severe acute infections increase the threat of prolonged covid, many other people with milder cases of covid-19 now suffer from this debilitating and little-known condition.
Now, a study by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Healthfound that mental anguish, along with depression, anxiety, stress, worry, and loneliness, prior to the initial COVID-19 infection, is linked to an increased risk of prolonged covid.
“We were surprised to see how mental misery before a COVID-19 infection was related to an increased threat of prolonged covid,” said the study’s lead author, Siwen Wang, a nutrition researcher at Harvard Chan School. of a prolonged COVID that threatens fitness hotspots like obesity, asthma and hypertension. “
Scientists have long known that intellectual fitness influences the severity and outcomes of illnesses, adding respiratory illnesses, such as the flu or the common cold. cohort of 54,000 participants in April 2020 and assessed their intellectual aptitude. Over the next year, 3,000 of the participants became inflamed with Sars-Cov-2, and researchers followed them to investigate their Covid symptoms and the duration of symptoms.
They found that mental distress before COVID-19 was associated with a 32 to 46 higher risk of prolonged COVID, and a 15 to 51% higher risk of fighting disorders of daily living due to this condition.
“To our knowledge, this is the first prospective study to show that a wide variety of social and mental issues are threat points for prolonged covid and impaired life due to prolonged covid,” said the study’s lead author, Andrea Roberts. , an expert in environmental fitness at Harvard.
“We want intellectual fitness, in addition to physical fitness, to be long-term threat points for COVID-19. These findings also reinforce the desire to raise public awareness of the importance of intellectual fitness and provide attention to intellectual fitness to those who wish to increase it by expanding the number of intellectual fitness physicians and gaining better access to care. “
He is published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
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By Andrei Ionescu, editor of Earth. com