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As the season for tick-borne infections begins to heat up, so do concerns about the long-term effects of Lyme disease, especially in those cases involving the central nervous system. This retrospective study involved all 2067 Danish patients with a diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LN) between 1986 and 2016. The authors compared mortality, morbidity, educational, and social outcomes in patients with those found in 20,670 age- and sex-matched Danish controls.
Mortality over the 30-year period was not higher among the LN patients or their families, compared with the controls or their families. However, the risk of newly diagnosed hematologic malignancies was threefold higher in the LN population. In addition, the risk of nonmelanoma skin can…