United States: COVID-19 has such a deep effect on patients that one has become more reactive even if the coming across was years ago.
It’s bad news indeed, and it has been confirmed by a study that was carried out by Cleveland Clinic and the University of Southern California.
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Research has proven that individuals who pull through Covid, are twice as likely to experience a fatal heart attack, stroke, or sudden cardiac death.
Further, the work reveals that an increased risk of all-cause mortality exists for up to three years of infection.
This Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology study establishes that the virus quietly injures the heart beyond recognizable manifestations, which requires vigilance by the public and attention to heart health.
The study also stated that it increases even if the patient was hospitalized for COVID and that it was more predictive of cardiovascular events than hypertension or previous cardiovascular disease.
According to Dr. Stanley Hazen, the co-senior study author, and chair of cardiovascular and metabolic sciences at the Clinic, “The results could translate into a rise in cardiovascular disease globally,” Times of India News reported.
“The results could translate into a rise in cardiovascular disease globally,” said co-senior study author Dr. Stanley Hazen, chair of cardiovascular and metabolic sciences at the Clinic.
The authors of the study state that the long-term symptom after Covid-19 remains a significant public health threat, whose extent has not been fully determined.
For the study, the researchers employed data from the UK Biobank, out of which 10,005 were patients who got attacked by Covid-19, and 217,730 were people who didn’t get sick with the virus.
The period that was considered for this was from February to December 2020.
The study revealed that those with blood types other than O are twice as likely to develop cardiovascular issues post-COVID-19 than the users of O-blood type.
Prior studies have also implied that A, B, or AB persons were at a higher risk of getting infected with Covid-19.