A new study published this week suggests that most hospitalized COVID-19 patients suffer from neurological symptoms, NBC News reports.
- The study was published in the journal Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.
- Symptoms range from mild to severe.
- The symptoms include headaches, dizziness and altered brain function, according to the study.
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Researchers at Northwestern Medicine reviewed cases of 509 hospitalized COVID-19 patients within their hospital network.
- According to NBC News, 82% of those patients developed symptoms connected to the nervous system and developed neurologic problems.
- The findings showed 44.8% reported having muscle pain.
- The study also showed 37.7% of patients had headaches.
- Under one-third said they had altered brain function.
Other symptoms included difficulty with attention, short-term memory loss, concentration, “all the way to confusion, stupor and coma,” Dr. Igor Koralnik, a co-author of the study and chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine, told NBC News.
“This is an important study, since the neurological complications of the infection seem to be frequent and in many cases long lasting, but yet have not received much attention,” Dr. Avindra Nath, chief of the section on infections of the nervous system at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, told The New York Times.