Study finds link between severe Covid-19 cases and brain damage

Results from a recent study by researches at University Hospital Southampton found a connection between Covid-19 and various forms of brain damage. The study, which looked at 125 Covid-19 patients in the U.K., found that 57 had a stroke caused by a blood clot in the brain and 39 had an altered mental state.

The median patient age for the study was 71 years, and “confirmation of the link between COVID-19 and new acute psychiatric or neuropsychiatric complications in younger patients will require detailed prospective longitudinal studies,” researchers said in the article, which was published in the Lancet Psychiatry, a medical journal.

In the U.S., doctors in New York City reported in April that the coronavirus was triggering strokes in younger patients who tested positive for Covid-19 but had few to no symptoms of the disease.