AS many as one in three people infected with COVID-19 have longer term mental health or neurological symptoms, researchers reported Tuesday.

They found 34 percent of COVID-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.

The most common diagnosis was anxiety, found in 17 percent of those treated for COVID-19, followed by mood disorders, found in 14 percent of patients.

While the neurological effects are more severe in hospitalized patients, they are still common in those who were only treated in an outpatient setting, the researchers note.

“That rate increased progressively as the severity of the COVID-19 illness increased. If we look at patients who were hospitalized that rate increased to 39 percent,” said Maxime Taquet, an academic clinical fellow in psychiatry at the University of Oxford, and a co-author of the new study.(SD-Agencies)