One year after contracting Covid-19, a significant proportion of those affected still suffer from limitations such as exhaustion, concentration problems and anxiety.
Laura Zamarian from the University Clinic for Neurology at MedUni Innsbruck and her co-authors recorded the subjectively perceived and objectively proven limitations of 74 Covid-19 patients from 2020. This was done one year after the acute illness.
The average age of the subjects was 56 years. 42 percent were women. 32 percent suffered from a relatively mild infection (care at home), 45 percent had to go to the hospital and 23 percent had received intensive care.
Cognitive deficits
“Hospitalized patients (with post-Covid symptoms; note) were more often affected than non-hospitalized patients,” the experts wrote in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. “Overall, the most common cognitive deficits were found in attention (23 percent), memory (15 percent), and executive functions (three percent; e.g., flexibility, planning, decision-making, motivation; note).”
However, when it comes to subjectively perceived limitations, the emphasis was on exhaustion (51 percent), anxiety (30 percent), mild distraction in everyday situations and depression (15 percent).
“Anxiety and fatigue have a greater impact on patients’ perceived limitations in daily life than objectively observable cognitive deficits.”
Source: Krone
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