A study of neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients was published on "Lancet psychiatry" recently.  

The UK-wide surveillance said "18 (49 percent) of 37 patients with altered mental status were younger than 60 years and 19 (51 percent) were older than 60 years," which means COVID-19 patients of all ages share similar potential for changes in their mental state. 

However, 18 percent of 74 patients with cerebrovascular events, such as strokes, were younger than 60 years versus 82 percent of patients older than 60 years, according to the study.

During the data collection period, the platforms looked through 153 cases that met clinical case definitions by clinicians in the UK, with an exponential growth in reported cases that was similar to overall COVID-19 data from UK Government public health bodies, according to the report. 

Researchers from National Institute for Health Research, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and other colleges and institutions in the UK also contributed to this research. 

Scientists around the world have started to research about health problems caused by the novel coronavirus. And this research is the first systematic, nationwide UK surveillance study of the breadth of acute complications of COVID-19 in the nervous system.

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