Depression, anxiety and cognitive performance each improved significantly in people cured of hepatitis C, Indian researchers report in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis.
Anxiety and depression are frequently reported by people with hepatitis C at all stages of liver disease. Neurocognitive impairment – including slowed mental processing speed and reaction times, reduced attention span and verbal fluency, and impaired memory – may affect up to half of people with hepatitis C. Hepatic encephalopathy, a decline in brain function seen in late-stage liver disease when the liver can no longer remove toxins from the blood, is a more severe form of neurocognitive impairment.
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