According to a report published in ‘Medical Journal Atherosclerosis Thrombosis’ and ‘Vascular Biology’, more than 11 thousand people were included in this research. The medical reports of those people were included in this. Those who had Covid in the year 2020 i.e. their Covid test was positive. It was based on the medical records of about 25 lakh people included in a large database called UK ‘Biobank’.
11 thousand people were included in this research
In this dataset the researcher identified more than 11 thousand such people. Whose lab test came positive for Covid-19 in the year 2020 and it is recorded in his medical records. Of them, more than 3,000 people were admitted to the hospital due to serious infection. They compared these groups with more than 222,000 people in the same database. Who did not have a history of COVID-19 in the same time frame.
People who test positive are at risk of stroke even after recovery
Research found that people who had Covid in the year 2020. Till that time he had not been vaccinated. They had twice the risk of a major cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke or death for about three years after the disease. Whose test was not positive. If a person was admitted to the hospital for his infection. Which points towards a more serious matter. So his risk of a major heart event was even higher. More than three times. Compared to those who did not have Covid in their medical records.
The risk of these diseases increases even after recovering from Covid
People who needed hospitalization. For them, COVID appeared to be as powerful a risk factor for future heart attacks and strokes as diabetes or peripheral artery disease, or PAD. Research has estimated that more than 3.5 million Americans were hospitalized for Covid between May 2020 and April 2021.
Why does Covid affect the heart?
We have known for some time that infections increase the risk of heart attack. So if you have influenza. If you have any kind of infection. Whether it is bacterial or viral, it increases the risk of heart attack. All these bacterial infections are also cured. But till now it is not known why Covid affects the heart function even after so many years?
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