Coronavirus doctor's diary: Is lockdown good for your heart?
Prof Alistair Hall, a cardiologist and clinical director for Yorkshire and Humber of the National Institute for Health Research, says he hasn't seen evidence yet of people just staying at home after having heart attacks. On the other hand, he"I have to drive into the hospital, but as I do I see the roads full of people walking and cycling families. I've never seen anything like it.
"Cholesterol is the single biggest preventable cause of heart attacks and strokes in the world," he says."And I think there's evidence suggests that during this time people are being much much better at taking medications that otherwise they might be forgetting or missing.""Good quality sleep is very advantageous in terms of health, and I guess people haven't needed to get up as early," he says.
There is a real urgency in addressing this concern in a city like Bradford, where almost a third of our population and NHS staff are non-white.Registrar Rabeia Javid says her eight-year-old son worried at the start of the epidemic, but now admires her choice of careerare BAME has caused ripples of anxiety to spread to the hospital.People face a number of risks, from exposure and infection, to the risk of ending up in hospital, and then the ultimate risk of dying.
Dr Sam Khan, consultant in acute medicine, has been ill with Covid-19 since 20 March - more than six weeks - and at one point he needed hospital treatment. His main symptoms have been a dry hacking cough and tiredness. He hopes to be well enough to return to work on 15 May.
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