Erwachsene im jüngeren und mittleren Alter haben schlimmere Langzeit-COVID-Symptome als ältere Erwachsene. Zu den Symptomen gehörten Kopfschmerzen, Geruchs- und Geschmacksprobleme, Depressionen, Angstzustände, Schlaflosigkeit, Müdigkeit und eine Verschlechterung der kognitiven Funktion. Sie traten unabhängig davon auf, ob der Patient eine leichte oder schwere COVID-19-Erkrankung hatte

Since older adults have been more severely affected by acute COVID-19, researchers have hypothesized that older adults may have worse long COVID symptoms as well. But according to new research published in the Annals of Neurology, an official journal of the American Neurological Association, Northwestern Medicine researchers found on an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older. Symptoms included headache, numbness and tingling, problems with smell and taste, blurred vision, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue and a decrease in cognitive function. These symptoms occurred regardless of if the patient had mild or severe COVID-19 infections.

“While deaths from COVID-19 continue to decrease, people still get repetitive infections with the virus and may develop long COVID along the way,” said Igor Koralnik, MD, chief of neuroinfectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine, who oversees the Neuro COVID-19 Clinic and is the co-director of the Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive COVID-19 Center. “Long COVID is causing an alteration in patients’ quality of life. Despite vaccinations and boosters, about 30 percent of COVID patients develop some long COVID symptoms. These findings have an immense public health impact, given that long COVID significantly contributes to the leading global burden of disability and disease caused by the neurological disorders.”

[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.27128](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.27128)

3 out of 10 cases having long COVID symptoms is rather concerning.