The risk of myocarditis is substantially higher in the 4 weeks after COVID-19 infection than after a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, say researchers of new study. CardioTwitter
Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after COVID-19 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination said UK researchers., the authors explained that myocarditis is more common after COVID-19 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination. However, the risks in younger people and after sequential vaccine doses were less certain.
Martina Patone, PhD, statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Science, University of Oxford, and first author of the study, said: "We found that across this large dataset, the entire COVID-19-vaccinated population of England during an important 12-month period of the pandemic when the COVID-19 vaccines first became available, the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination was quite small compared to the risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection.
"In contrast with other vaccines, the risk of myocarditis observed 1 to 28 days after a second dose of Moderna vaccine was higher and similar to the risk after infection," they pointed out, and added that this risk "persisted after a booster dose". Professor Nicholas Mills, PhD, Butler British Heart Foundation chair of cardiology, University of Edinburgh, and a co-author of the paper, emphasised: "It is important for the public to understand that myocarditis is rare, and the risk of developing myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccine is also rare." He explained that the risk should be "balanced against the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe COVID-19 infection".
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