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Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness.
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Long COVID puts some people at higher risk of heart disease. They need better long-term monitoring, says researcher
"Lasting damage to the heart and brain is an aspect of long COVID that should receive much more attention than it has so far. We have sufficient evidence now to call for ongoing monitoring of individuals across the population..."
Long COVID and heart issues: What do we know about lingering symptoms — and treatment?
"more than 200 post-COVID symptoms...most common ones include heart palpitations or racing sensations, chest pains, difficulty exercising, shortness of breath, dizziness and lightheadedness.
Long COVID is a “multisystemic illness” affecting millions..."
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How does long covid affect the heart? 🦠 A new #ACC23/#WCCardio study by @jolee_2022 found that experiencing long #COVID19 more than doubled a person's likelihood of developing cardiovascular issues. Find out more: https://
What everyone needs to know about the latest covid heart research
“AS MORE AND more research emerges about the impacts of COVID-19 on our bodies, it’s becoming clearer that the heart is a major target of the virus, often getting caught in its crossfire…”
New COVID Research Shows Post-Infection Heart Damage
COVID-Related Athletic Deaths: Another Perfect Storm?
Covid-related athletic deaths:
Long COVID Sufferers More Than Twice As Likely To Experience Heart Problems
"Study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session has found that long COVID can more than double a person’s likelihood of developing cardiovascular issues."
COVID increases your risk for cardiac complications—immediately and into the future, experts say. Here's how you can protect your heart
"Even a mild case of COVID can lead to an increased risk of cardiac issues like heart failure and stroke for at least a year, according to a March study by Veterans Affairs Department researchers."
Long Covid doubles the chances of life-threatening heart problems
"Long Covid doubles the chances of life-threatening heart problems, study finds"
How COVID-19 Changes the Heart—Even After the Virus Is Gone
"How COVID-19 Changes the Heart—Even After the Virus Is Gone"
Severe COVID-19 outcomes by cardiovascular risk profile in England in 2020: a population-based cohort study
"Individuals without pre-existing CVD but with raised cardiovascular risk (by QRISK3 score) were more likely to experience severe COVID-19 outcomes and should be prioritised for prevention and treatment."
Covid can cause heart problems. Here's how the virus may do its damage.
"Covid can cause damage to the heart on a cellular level that can lead to lasting problems, including irregular heartbeats and heart failure, preliminary research suggests."
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The persistent excess of cardiovascular deaths in the United States through the 1st 2 years of the pandemic, consistent throughout 5 Covid waves, even well after surges in cases waned
Heart attacks and strokes late after Covid
"Covid is associated with an excess of heart attacks and strokes beyond the first month of infection. That can no longer be ignored or refuted."
How COVID-19 permanently damages the heart
"...the ongoing inflammation in COVID-19 attacks the heart tissue and, in the long term, remodels the smallest coronary vessels by directing special precursor cells of the immune system from the blood into the heart."
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein induces long-term transcriptional perturbations of mitochondrial metabolic genes, causes cardiac fibrosis, and reduces myocardial contractile in obese mice
New preprint of mouse study: "The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein induces long-term transcriptional perturbations of mitochondrial metabolic genes, causes cardiac fibrosis, and reduces myocardial contractile in obese mice"
Mid- and Long-Term Atrio-Ventricular Functional Changes in Children after Recovery from COVID-19
"Mid- and Long-Term Atrio-Ventricular Functional Changes in Children after Recovery from COVID-19"
Inflammation and vascular remodeling in COVID-19 hearts
"We conclude that cardiac involvement in COVID-19 is an angiocentric macrophage-driven inflammatory process, distinct from classical anti-viral inflammatory responses, and substantially underappreciated by conventional histopathologic analysis."
COVID-19 Surges Linked to Spike in Heart Attacks
“The dramatic rise in heart attacks during the pandemic has reversed what was a prior decadelong steady improvement in cardiac deaths,”
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POST infection cardiovascular events are still occurring at significant rates. Even in the young AND with "mild" Omicron. Excess deaths in the USA have shown this for the ENTIRE pandemic (including pre-vaccine).
Rise in sudden deaths among young people with “mild” COVID-19 points to urgent need to end the pandemic
"There is an increase in sudden deaths from heart attacks and strokes among young people infected with what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to as 'mild' cases of COVID-19."
Heart attack deaths jumped sharply among young US adults in 2nd year of COVID pandemic | Chattanooga Times Free Press
"While other infections such as the flu are known to lead to a slightly increased risk of heart attacks, the Cedars-Sinai researchers said, they could find nothing that compared with the jump in deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic"
New evidence that heart damage risk is much higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination
"Patients are seven times more likely to develop myocarditis after a COVID-19 infection than after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new meta-analysis published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine."
Lingering cardiac involvement in previously well people after mild COVID-19
"Serial heart MRI scans conducted in previously well people with mild initial COVID-19 illness suggest that lingering cardiac symptoms may be explained, at least in part, by ongoing mild cardiac inflammation."
Cardiac inflammation after mild COVID-19 in previously healthy people
"...people with mild COVID-19 showed rare signs of cardiac damage, wherein the cardiac symptoms were profound... non-ischemic cardiac inflammatory changes have been observed previously in populations comprising young athletic people following COVID-19"
COVID Attacks DNA in Heart, Unlike Flu, Study Says
"COVID-19 causes DNA damage to the heart, affecting the body in a completely different way than the flu does, according to a recent study published in Immunology"
Unlike flu, COVID-19 attacks DNA in the heart: new research
"Unlike flu, COVID-19 attacks DNA in the heart: new research:"
‘Prevalence of youth suffering heart attacks goes up post-Covid’
"The prevalence of young patients with heart attacks has increased post-Covid...even if the person feels that he has recovered, he may not realise that the virus causes some changes in the endothelium that can cause heart attack & stroke."
SARS-CoV-2 Nsp6 causes cardiac defects through MGA/MAX complex-mediated increased glycolysis
"The presence of virus in cardiac tissue of patients with COVID-19 suggests this is a direct, rather than secondary, effect of infection."
Three myths about COVID-19 — and the biggest challenge that lies ahead
"COVID-19 left me with a serious heart complication that occurs in 2 per cent of infected people, with the risk not diminished by immunisation or prior infection."