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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022

Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case

Author:     Saima May Sidik
Source:     nature
Publication Date:     10 February 2022
 Link: Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
Stephan:   As the months have gone by I have seen more and more research papers in the scientific journals on the long-term consequences of Covid. I have published articles on a number of them, and this is the latest. If you have had Covid, young or old, I urge you to contact a physician, particularly a cardiologist, for an evaluation. Citation: to access the research discussed in this article: doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00403-0 Reference: Xie, Y., Xu, E., Bowe, B. & Al-Aly, Z. Nature Med. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3 (2022).
The risk of 20 diseases of the heart and blood vessels is high for at least a year after a COVID-19 diagnosis. Credit: Living Art Enterprises/Science Photo Library

Even a mild case of COVID-19 can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems for at least a year after diagnosis, a new study1 shows. Researchers found that rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19 than in similar people who hadn’t had the disease.

What’s more, the risk was elevated even for those who were under 65 years of age and lacked risk factors, such as obesity or diabetes.

“It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, it doesn’t matter if you smoked, or you didn’t,” says study co-author Ziyad Al-Aly at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and the chief of research and development for the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System. “The risk was there.”

Al-Aly and his colleagues based their research on an extensive health-record database curated by the United States […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 6:14 pm

    My step-son’s girlfriend of 15+ years had a cousin who just died from “Covid” after being released from the hospital a few days earlier. They were watching after him since his release from the hospital.