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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCOVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health--a full year after recovery
https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-takes-serious-toll-heart-health-full-year-after-recoveryFrom very early in the pandemic, it was clear that SARS-CoV-2 can damage the heart and blood vessels while people are acutely ill. Patients developed clots, heart inflammation, arrythmias, and heart failure.
Now, the first large study to assess cardiovascular outcomes 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 infection has demonstrated that the virus impact is often lasting. In an analysis of more than 11 million U.S. veterans health records, researchers found the risk of 20 different heart and vessel maladies was substantially increased in veterans who had COVID-19 1 year earlier, compared with those who didnt. The risk rose with severity of initial disease and extended to every outcome the team examined, including heart attacks, arrhythmias, strokes, cardiac arrest, and more. Even people who never went to the hospital had more cardiovascular disease than those who were never infected.
The results are stunning worse than I expected, for sure, says Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Research. All of these are very serious disorders. If anybody ever thought that COVID was like the flu this should be one of the most powerful data sets to point out its not. He adds that the new study may be the most impressive Long Covid paper we have seen to date.
Others agree the results of the study, published in Nature Medicine on 7 February, are powerful. In the post-COVID era, COVID might become the highest risk factor for cardiovascular outcomes, greater than well-documented risks such as smoking and obesity, says Larisa Tereshchenko, a cardiologist and biostatistician at the Cleveland Clinic, who recently conducted a similar, much smaller analysis. She cautions that the new study will need to be replicated, and that it was retrospective, possibly introducing inaccuracies such as incorporating faulty diagnoses from patient records. It looked back. We have to do prospective studies to calculate accurate estimates.
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COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health--a full year after recovery (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R!
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)2. It may be significant that these people would have contracted
Covid in the pre-vaccine era.
lostnfound
(16,138 posts)3. Huge study, significant - heart, arrhythmias, stroke