Risks of mental health outcomes in people with covid-19: Cohort study

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the risks of incident mental health disorders in survivors of the acute phase of covid-19.\nDESIGN: Cohort study.\nSETTING: US Department of Veterans Affairs.\nPARTICIPANTS: Cohort comprising 153 848 people who survived the first 30 days of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and two control groups: a contemporary group (n=5 637 840) with no evidence of SARS-CoV-2, and a historical control group (n=5 859 251) that predated the covid-19 pandemic.\nMAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES: Risks of prespecified incident mental health outcomes, calculated as hazard ratio and absolute risk difference per 1000 people at one year, with corresponding 95% confidence intervals. Predefined covariates and algorithmically selected…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• AS
  American Society of Nephrology