Covid and Heart Damage

Covid and Heart Damage

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Long COVID puts some people at higher risk of heart disease. They need better long-term monitoring, says researcher
Long COVID puts some people at higher risk of heart disease. They need better long-term monitoring, says researcher
"Lasting damage to the heart and brain is an aspect of long COVID that should receive much more attention than it has so far. We have sufficient evidence now to call for ongoing monitoring of individuals across the population..."
#Heart#Brain
·medicalxpress.com·
Long COVID puts some people at higher risk of heart disease. They need better long-term monitoring, says researcher
ACC Media Center on Twitter
ACC Media Center on Twitter

How does long covid affect the heart? 🦠 A new #ACC23/#WCCardio study by @jolee_2022 found that experiencing long #COVID19 more than doubled a person's likelihood of developing cardiovascular issues. Find out more: https://

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·twitter.com·
ACC Media Center on Twitter
What everyone needs to know about the latest covid heart research
What everyone needs to know about the latest covid heart research

“AS MORE AND more research emerges about the impacts of COVID-19 on our bodies, it’s becoming clearer that the heart is a major target of the virus, often getting caught in its crossfire…”

New COVID Research Shows Post-Infection Heart Damage

#Heart
·healthcentral.com·
What everyone needs to know about the latest covid heart research
Eric Topol on Twitter
Eric Topol on Twitter
The persistent excess of cardiovascular deaths in the United States through the 1st 2 years of the pandemic, consistent throughout 5 Covid waves, even well after surges in cases waned
#Heart
·twitter.com·
Eric Topol on Twitter
Heart attacks and strokes late after Covid
Heart attacks and strokes late after Covid
"Covid is associated with an excess of heart attacks and strokes beyond the first month of infection. That can no longer be ignored or refuted."
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·erictopol.substack.com·
Heart attacks and strokes late after Covid
How COVID-19 permanently damages the heart
How COVID-19 permanently damages the heart
"...the ongoing inflammation in COVID-19 attacks the heart tissue and, in the long term, remodels the smallest coronary vessels by directing special precursor cells of the immune system from the blood into the heart."
#Heart
·idw-online.de·
How COVID-19 permanently damages the heart
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein induces long-term transcriptional perturbations of mitochondrial metabolic genes, causes cardiac fibrosis, and reduces myocardial contractile in obese mice
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein induces long-term transcriptional perturbations of mitochondrial metabolic genes, causes cardiac fibrosis, and reduces myocardial contractile in obese mice

New preprint of mouse study: "The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein induces long-term transcriptional perturbations of mitochondrial metabolic genes, causes cardiac fibrosis, and reduces myocardial contractile in obese mice"

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·biorxiv.org·
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein induces long-term transcriptional perturbations of mitochondrial metabolic genes, causes cardiac fibrosis, and reduces myocardial contractile in obese mice
Inflammation and vascular remodeling in COVID-19 hearts
Inflammation and vascular remodeling in COVID-19 hearts
"We conclude that cardiac involvement in COVID-19 is an angiocentric macrophage-driven inflammatory process, distinct from classical anti-viral inflammatory responses, and substantially underappreciated by conventional histopathologic analysis."
#Heart
·link.springer.com·
Inflammation and vascular remodeling in COVID-19 hearts
COVID-19 Surges Linked to Spike in Heart Attacks
COVID-19 Surges Linked to Spike in Heart Attacks
“The dramatic rise in heart attacks during the pandemic has reversed what was a prior decadelong steady improvement in cardiac deaths,”
#Heart
·cedars-sinai.org·
COVID-19 Surges Linked to Spike in Heart Attacks
John Hess MD on Twitter
John Hess MD on Twitter
POST infection cardiovascular events are still occurring at significant rates. Even in the young AND with "mild" Omicron. Excess deaths in the USA have shown this for the ENTIRE pandemic (including pre-vaccine).
#Heart
·twitter.com·
John Hess MD on Twitter
Heart attack deaths jumped sharply among young US adults in 2nd year of COVID pandemic | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Heart attack deaths jumped sharply among young US adults in 2nd year of COVID pandemic | Chattanooga Times Free Press
"While other infections such as the flu are known to lead to a slightly increased risk of heart attacks, the Cedars-Sinai researchers said, they could find nothing that compared with the jump in deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic"
#Heart
·timesfreepress.com·
Heart attack deaths jumped sharply among young US adults in 2nd year of COVID pandemic | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Cardiac inflammation after mild COVID-19 in previously healthy people
Cardiac inflammation after mild COVID-19 in previously healthy people
"...people with mild COVID-19 showed rare signs of cardiac damage, wherein the cardiac symptoms were profound... non-ischemic cardiac inflammatory changes have been observed previously in populations comprising young athletic people following COVID-19"
#Heart
·news-medical.net·
Cardiac inflammation after mild COVID-19 in previously healthy people
COVID Attacks DNA in Heart, Unlike Flu, Study Says
COVID Attacks DNA in Heart, Unlike Flu, Study Says
"COVID-19 causes DNA damage to the heart, affecting the body in a completely different way than the flu does, according to a recent study published in Immunology"
#Heart
·webmd.com·
COVID Attacks DNA in Heart, Unlike Flu, Study Says
Dr Elisa Perego on Twitter
Dr Elisa Perego on Twitter

Twitter thread by Dr. Elisa Perego Evidence of cardiac involvement in a significant percentage of covid survivors, even with "mild" disease from Puntmann et al 2020

"cardiac MRI revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%)

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·twitter.com·
Dr Elisa Perego on Twitter