(hwa) 02/18/23 Again, surge in sudden deaths from long-COVID ...
Heart-disease risk soars after COVID -- even with a mild case.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of
cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a
SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Saima May Sidik
Coloured frontal chest X-ray superimposed with a coloured 3D CT scan
of the heart and its blood vessels in a healthy adult.
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 personÂ’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 hadnÂ’t had the
disease.
WhatÂ’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 Department of
Veterans Affairs. The researchers compared more than 150,000 veterans
who survived for at least 30 days after contracting COVID-19 with two
groups of uninfected people: a group of more than five million people
who used the VA medical system during the pandemic, and a similarly
sized group that used the system in 2017, before SARS-CoV-2 was
circulating.
Troubled hearts
People who had recovered from COVID-19 showed stark increases in 20
cardiovascular problems over the year after infection. For example,
they were 52% more likely to have had a stroke than the contemporary
control group, meaning that, out of every 1,000 people studied, there
were around 4 more people in the COVID-19 group than in the control
group who experienced stroke.
The risk of heart failure increased by 72%, or around 12 more people
in the COVID-19 group per 1,000 studied. Hospitalization increased the
likelihood of future cardiovascular complications, but even people who
avoided hospitalization were at higher risk for many conditions.
“I am actually surprised by these findings that cardiovascular
complications of COVID can last so long,” Hossein Ardehali, a
cardiologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, wrote in
an e-mail to Nature. Because severe disease increased the risk of
complications much more than mild disease, Ardehali wrote, “it is
important that those who are not vaccinated get their vaccine
immediately”.
COVIDÂ’s cardiac connection
Ardehali cautions that the studyÂ’s observational nature comes with
some limitations. For example, people in the contemporary control
group werenÂ’t tested for COVID-19, so itÂ’s possible that some of them
actually had mild infections. And because the authors considered only
VA patients — a group that’s predominantly white and male — their
results might not translate to all populations.
Ardehali and Al-Aly agree that health-care providers around the world
should be prepared to address an increase in cardiovascular
conditions. But with high COVID-19 case counts still straining medical
resources, Al-Aly worries that health authorities will delay preparing
for the pandemic’s aftermath for too long. “We collectively dropped
the ball on COVID,” he said. “And I feel we’re about to drop the ball
on long COVID.”
Nature 602, 560 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00403-0
References
Xie, Y., Xu, E., Bowe, B. & Al-Aly, Z. Nature Med.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3 (2022).
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Link to the above content:
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A shorter more shareable link:
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Suggested further reading:
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Shorter link:
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LORD truly loves (John 15:13) us ...
"For we are GODÂ’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus (
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