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[CNA] Increased risk of mental disorders even one year after COVID-19 infection, study suggests

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COVID-19 infection is associated with an increased subsequent - up to one year later - risk of mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, abuse of alcohol and other addictive substances, sleep disturbance, suicidal thoughts, etc., according to a major new US scientific study.

The study, the most comprehensive of its kind to date, points out that the mental health of those who became ill with coronavirus, whether severe or mild, should be considered a priority issue, and in the long term. The researchers, led by Dr. Ziyad-Al-Ali of Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Health System Clinical Epidemiology Center in St. Louis, who published the paper in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), analyzed data on nearly 156.000 people with an average age of 63 years who
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