Long-Covid In North India: Fatigue, pain, breathlessness and many neuro-psychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, brain fog and sleep disorders were seen in many long-Covid patients.
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‘Neuro-psychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, brain fog and sleep disorders were seen in many long-Covid patients.’
The findings showed that overall, long-Covid occurred in almost 40 per cent of the cases, said lead researcher Dr Sandeep Budhiraja, Group Medical Director at Max Healthcare, in a statement. Of the 990 patients studied, 31.8 per cent patients had post-Covid symptoms beyond three months, and 11 per cent of the patients continued to have some form of symptoms for as long as 9-12 months from the onset of disease.
Fatigue was found to be the most commonly reported with 12.5 per cent cases followed by myalgia (9.3 per cent). Persistence of breathlessness was also reported significantly more often in those who had severe disease at the onset.
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These post-Covid symptoms also had significant correlations to age, Budhiraja said.
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On the other hand, "neuro-psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, 'brain-fog', and sleep disorder, were reported by 9.0 per cent cases. It was significantly associated with pre-existing comorbidity and not with age, gender, or severity of illness", Budhiraja said.
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The study also extrapolated the findings to the presently reported Covid-19 numbers.
"As on June 4, 2021, India has had 2.87 crore reported cases of Covid-19. It can be considered that with the hospitalization rate at 6 per cent, almost 17 lakh would have required admission," the hospital statement said.
"If 40 per cent of these develop long-Covid syndrome, this makes it about 7 lakh cases requiring help after discharge," it added.
The doctors noted that the actual number of long-Covid can be much more as this condition can also occur in the mild-Covid-19 patients, who were never hospitalized.
Source-IANS
