COVID infection increases risk for dangerous heart problems, study finds

Within the yr after contracting COVID-19, sufferers are at an elevated threat for creating 20 cardiac issues, a brand new examine discovered. 

These issues embody stroke, coronary heart assault, myocarditis and irregular coronary heart rhythms, in accordance with the examine from Washington College College of Medication in St. Louis. Research authors estimate COVID infections have led to three million instances of coronary heart illness within the U.S. 

Even youthful, more healthy individuals have been in danger, as have been those that weren't hospitalized for COVID, in accordance with the examine. 

After a COVID an infection final yr, Dr. Evelina Grayver grew to become a affected person in her personal coronary heart program at Northwell Well being in New York. Grayver, a marathon runner, could not even make it up a flight of stairs. 

"I actually felt like I simply ran a marathon, that my coronary heart was simply racing," she advised CBS Information. "I made a decision to not play my very own physician and really search medical assist." 

Grayver had long-haul COVID and was identified with myocarditis, or irritation of the guts muscle. Her coronary heart was failing to pump usually. 

"It was very scary," she mentioned. "We all know the chance of the myocarditis of sudden cardiac dying. My first night time was the scary one. I stored on considering to myself, 'Please, please let me simply get up within the morning.'" 

She worries that cardiac issues will improve for sufferers who've been uncovered and contaminated with COVID. 

"We are actually simply starting to scratch the floor of all of it," she mentioned. 

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