NBC news 영어기사: Stress, anxiety and depression may increase the risk of long Covid, study finds

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/stress-anxiety-depression-may-increase-long-covid-risk-study-rcna46449

 

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1) People who felt stressed, anxious, lonely, depressed, or worried about Covid before getting infected were at higher risk of developing long-term symptoms from their illness, a new study found.

2) The results show that people who reported psychological distress before they got infected had a 32% to 46% increased risk of long covid, compared to people who did not report such distress.

3) The factors that we identified are more strongly associated with risk of long Covid than pretty much anything else anyone's found.

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3. The article says that a research has found a strong correlation between pepople's psychological-mostly negative- conditions and increased possibility of more suffering from long Covid. The results were quite surprising to me, as I only thought about the other way around. It was also impressive that the researchers tried to control any possible variables that could affect the results of their testing, like excluding symptoms, such as brain fog or fatigue, that could overlap with non-Covid related symptoms.