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(Siani) 02/20/23 Again, surge in sudden deaths from long-COVID ...
Heart-disease risk soars after COVID -- even with a mild case.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of
cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a
SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Saima May Sidik
Coloured frontal chest X-ray superimposed with a coloured 3D CT scan
of the heart and its blood vessels in a healthy adult.
The risk of 20 diseases of the heart and blood vessels is high for at
least a year after a COVID-19 diagnosis.Credit: Living Art
Enterprises/Science Photo Library
Even a mild case of COVID-19 can increase a person�s risk of
cardiovascular problems for at least a year after diagnosis, a new
study1 shows. Researchers found that rates of many conditions, such as
heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had
recovered from COVID-19 than in similar people who hadn�t had the
disease.
What�s more, the risk was elevated even for those who were under 65
years of age and lacked risk factors, such as obesity or diabetes.
�It doesn�t matter if you are young or old, it doesn�t matter if you
smoked, or you didn�t,� says study co-author Ziyad Al-Aly at
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and the chief of
research and development for the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis
Health Care System. �The risk was there.�
Al-Aly and his colleagues based their research on an extensive
health-record database curated by the United States Department of
Veterans Affairs. The researchers compared more than 150,000 veterans
who survived for at least 30 days after contracting COVID-19 with two
groups of uninfected people: a group of more than five million people
who used the VA medical system during the pandemic, and a similarly
sized group that used the system in 2017, before SARS-CoV-2 was
circulating.
Troubled hearts
People who had recovered from COVID-19 showed stark increases in 20 cardiovascular problems over the year after infection. For example,
they were 52% more likely to have had a stroke than the contemporary
control group, meaning that, out of every 1,000 people studied, there
were around 4 more people in the COVID-19 group than in the control
group who experienced stroke.
The risk of heart failure increased by 72%, or around 12 more people
in the COVID-19 group per 1,000 studied. Hospitalization increased the likelihood of future cardiovascular complications, but even people who
avoided hospitalization were at higher risk for many conditions.
�I am actually surprised by these findings that cardiovascular
complications of COVID can last so long,� Hossein Ardehali, a
cardiologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, wrote in
an e-mail to Nature. Because severe disease increased the risk of
complications much more than mild disease, Ardehali wrote, �it is
important that those who are not vaccinated get their vaccine
immediately�.
COVID�s cardiac connection
Ardehali cautions that the study�s observational nature comes with
some limitations. For example, people in the contemporary control
group weren�t tested for COVID-19, so it�s possible that some of them
actually had mild infections. And because the authors considered only
VA patients � a group that�s predominantly white and male � their
results might not translate to all populations.
Ardehali and Al-Aly agree that health-care providers around the world
should be prepared to address an increase in cardiovascular
conditions. But with high COVID-19 case counts still straining medical resources, Al-Aly worries that health authorities will delay preparing
for the pandemic�s aftermath for too long. �We collectively dropped
the ball on COVID,� he said. �And I feel we�re about to drop the ball
on long COVID.�
Nature 602, 560 (2022)
doi:
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00403-0
References
Xie, Y., Xu, E., Bowe, B. & Al-Aly, Z. Nature Med.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3 (2022).
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The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the US & elsewhere is by rapidly (
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19
) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to
http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward
(John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per
their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping
for the best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha
lineage mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon,
Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Link to the above content:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/q585Am1Is9E/m/JIw5_vcSBQAJ
A shorter more shareable link:
https://tinyurl.com/COVIDheartDisease
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
These "good works" (Ephesians 2:10) is what LORD Jesus means by His
parable of the
http://tinyurl.com/SamaritanDoctor (Luke 10:25-37):
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/R8YHuo3nb3c/m/hnKs4JdrAAAJ
So let's
http://tinyurl.com/TrulyLove (John 15:12) each other as our
LORD truly loves (John 15:13) us ...
"For we are GOD�s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus (
http://bit.ly/Lk2442 ) to do good (Matthew 19:17) works, which GOD
prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10 w/ parenthetical clarification)
Source:
https://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-10.htm
How to be a doer instead of sit/soak to become sour (grumpy):
http://tinyurl.com/EightTalents
This is **not** what
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew wants but rather
what LORD Jesus wants:
http://WDJW.net
BTW (John 14:6), "what would Jesus have us do" is false teaching
because it's past tense and restricted to action (i.e. does **not**
include behavior/attitude) while "what does Jesus want" is both
present tense **and** all-inclusive.
For example:
http://tinyurl.com/WhatDoesJesusWantFor2023
Therefore,
http://tinyurl.com/BeHungrier , which really is wonderfully healthier especially for diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
(
http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the
http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart so
that we can (Philippians 4:13) fly up to meet the LORD in the air when
He returns to rescue us
..because we mindfully choose to openly care (Mt5:47) w/our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an
http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
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