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gastrointestinal symptoms . I’m a pretty healthy 37-year-old, non-smoking, vegetarian cyclist and back in March I developed one of the driest and most aggressive coughs of my life. It was bad enough that I couldn’t breathe several times in the night, something I’d never experienced before.
But since I never got a fever, I was refused a test by my local hospital. However, I also had some pretty serious gastrointestinal issues that I will not detail here. Since I never got tested — and haven’t been tested for antibodies — I can’t say for sure, but I suspect I had COVID-19. Now there is something new to add to the COVID-19 fallout, as if we needed something more to be concerned with. According to a new study, published in theJournal, 78 percent of recovered COVID-19 patients had permanent heart damage. Naturally, if I did indeed have COVID-19, I’m recovered by now. But after reading this study, I’m left to ponder: If I did contract COVID-19, what else did it do to my body, particularly my heart? The authors of this latest study are from the University Hospital Frankfurt. Doctors there examined MRIs of 100 people who had recovered from the coronavirus. The researchers found that nearly 80% of the patients exhibited heart changes. So what does this mean? Well… according to the authors of the study, it means that while most of the discussion on COVID-19 has been about protecting the infected patients’ lungs, it seems clear that the heart is also heavily involved in fighting the virus.saying that “The fact that 78 percent of ‘recovered’ [patients] had evidence of ongoing heart involvement means that the heart is involved in a majority of patients, even if COVID-19 illness does not scream out with the classical heart symptoms, such as anginal chest pain. In my view, the relatively clear onset of COVID-19 illness provides an opportunity to take proactive action and to look for heart involvement early.”Naturally, like most things COVID-19 in 2020, this is a preliminary study. But what I think is the most alarming to me, and it probably should be alarming to you as well, is that those 100 patients had a range of COVID-19 symptoms. The majority of the patients were not hospitalized and recovered at home. Some didn’t have any symptoms at all. And the long-term effects of the virus remain unknown. So ultimately what this study suggests is that there are detrimental effects to the cardiovascular systems, even after recovery — meaning that even though you might test negative for COVID-19 two weeks after testing positive, your body may sustain lingering damage. This study isn’t the only discussion going on around heart damage after contracting COVID-19. According to a recent
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