Author: Bolysbek Dana
Editor: Merentsova Anastasia
To investigate the likelihood of developing neurological diseases, scientists from Chicago analyzed diagrams of more than 500 patients admitted to the Northwestern Medicine health care system in Chicago.
As a result, it was revealed that neurological symptoms are present in 42% of patients when symptoms of COVID-19 appear, in 63% of patients during hospitalization, and in 82% of patients during the entire course of COVID-19 disease. These symptoms include muscle aches, headaches, dizziness, encephalopathy, and brain fog.
Muscle and headaches were the most common among all the others, they were found in 45% and 38% of patients, respectively. The next most common were encephalopathy and dizziness, which were observed in almost a third of patients. The third place was given to disorders of taste and smell, in 16% and 11%, respectively.
In addition, the mortality rate in patients with encephalopathy was much higher than in patients without encephalopathy.
Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-covid-patients-neurological-symptoms.html
