Study: Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Can Increase Risk of Long COVID
while others don’t. Now, a new study has found a link between having certain mental health conditions and developing long COVID.and conducted by researchers at Harvard University, analyzed survey responses from nearly 55,000 people from April 2020 to November 2021. More than 3,000 of those people said they’d had COVID-19 and, of those, about 1,400 said they had developed long COVID.
Study co-author Siwen Wang, M.D., a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says she and her research team wanted to study this because there are so many unknowns about long COVID. “It has been estimated that 8 to 23 million Americans may suffer from long-term COVID-19 symptoms,” she says. “Despite the high prevalence and daily life impairment associated with long COVID, long COVID is still poorly understood and few risk factors have been established.
Unfortunately, the study didn’t explore this—it simply established a link. Still, there are some theories.
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