“Quick personal note. A close friend recently died from a heart attack a week after COVID. COVID increases risk of cardiac events. It may have faded from the news cycle, but COVID continues to take people from their families. Please take it seriously.”
“Can we all agree that it's weird and not good that there has been a 25% rise in hospital episodes of acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks) in young working age adults?
And can we all look at that graph and maybe just consider for a moment that it might be due to damage caused by covid infections?”
Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions
"5 million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared"
“🔬New study shows SARS-CoV-2 causes direct damage to heart cell mitochondria - even months after recovery - helping potentially explain Long COVID heart symptoms like chest pain, palpitations & fatigue.
Been waiting to have time to read this paper. Let’s break it down. 🧵”
(It’s not rare)
“Some medical experts have speculated that in ‘rare’ cases, such incidents could be linked to post COVID complications.”
This study investigates cardiac risk in recovered COVID-19 patients using non-invasive imaging.
Among 33 recovered COVID-19 patients with no prior heart conditions, two-thirds showed increased cardiac sympathetic activity.
Heart attacks are striking young Americans at “alarming levels.”
Heart attacks in people aged 18-44 years old increased by 66% between 2019 and 2023.
