Brain Health After COVID-19, Pneumonia, Myocardial Infarction, or Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Brain health is most likely compromised after hospitalization for COVID-19; however, long-term prospective investigations with matched control cohorts and face-to-face assessments are lacking.

Objective

To assess whether long-term cognitive, psychiatric, or neurological complications among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 differ from those among patients hospitalized for other medical conditions of similar severity and from healthy controls.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective cohort study with matched controls was conducted at 2 academic hospitals in Copenhagen, Denmark. The case cohort comprised patients with COVID-19 hospitalized between March 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021. Control cohorts consisted of patients hospitalized for pneumonia,

SUBMITTER: Peinkhofer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755623 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature