After recovering from their initial illness, COVID-19 patients can sometimes suffer serious complications such as heart attacks and strokes — even up to a year later. New research quantifies the risk.
"I trust the findings. I think it's real," says Tereshchenko, who has conducted heron the cardiovascular risks after a coronavirus infection, albeit with a much smaller sample size.
Raman points out that in the study, severity of disease strongly predicts the likelihood of serious heart or cardiovascular problems. "It's not like, 'Oh my gosh, everyone got COVID and the next thing you know, they all had heart attacks — that's not it," Krumholz says.has patients who've seen the study's topline results and have come to him concerned about their long-term health.
Doctors sometimes see myocardial damage, or inflammation of parts of the heart muscles, in COVID patients, says, a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital."The question is how much of it is reversible and how much of it is enduring and will be reaping in the coming decades?" he says."It doesn't take a very big scar to predispose you to have arrhythmias.