"more than 200 post-COVID symptoms...most common ones include heart palpitations or racing sensations, chest pains, difficulty exercising, shortness of breath, dizziness and lightheadedness.
Long COVID is a “multisystemic illness” affecting millions..."
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://
“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
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"
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%)
