The cardiac risk paper actually is peer reviewed and is available here:mikechamp wrote: ↑February 10 22, 10:25 amA couple of studies to monitor as they have yet to go through peer review. I specifically call your attention to the first section of the article, as some on this board have cited lingering effects from their bout of COVID.
Risk of new heart problems jumps after COVID; mRNA shot side effects no different for cancer patients
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.
Risk of new heart problems much higher after COVID recovery
Long after recovery from COVID-19, people face significantly higher risks for new heart problems, a large study has found.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs compared rates of new cardiovascular problems in 153,760 individuals infected with the coronavirus before vaccines were available, 5.6 million people who did not catch the virus, and another 5.9 million people whose data was collected before the pandemic. An average of one year after their recovery from the acute phase of the infection, the COVID-19 survivors had a 63% higher risk for heart attack, a 69% higher risk for problematic irregular heart rhythm, a 52% higher risk of stroke, a 72% higher risk of heart failure, and a nearly three times higher risk of a potentially fatal blood clot in the lungs compared with the other two groups, according to a report published on Monday in Nature Medicine. The elevated risks among former COVID-19 patients were evident in young and old, Blacks and whites, males and females, people with and without diabetes and with and without kidney disease, as well as smokers and nonsmokers, said Ziyad Al-Aly of the VA St. Louis Health Care System and Washington University in St. Louis.
The risks were high even in people who had mild COVID-19 and did not need to be hospitalized for it, he noted in a Twitter thread. "It really spared no one," Al-Aly told Reuters. "People with COVID-19 should pay attention to their health and seek medical care if they experience symptoms like chest pain, chest pressure, palpitation, swelling in the legs, etc."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591- ... 89-3#Sec31
A few things worth pointing out:
-The study covers people who got COVID prior to the availability of vaccines. We know that vaccination massively reduces the risk of severe disease and is very likely to reduce these disease impacts as well.
-The group studied is older: average age ~63. They compare risk for “old” vs “young” and find much lower, though still significantly elevated risks for young, but given the age profile of the studied group, young was defined as <65.
-Risks of these effects dramatically increase with severity of infection. For the studied group, 4.5% of the matched control group had a major adverse cardiac event in 1 year compared to 5.6% for those who had non-hospitalized (but still recorded) COVID. The 1 year rates for hospitalized and ICU-admitted COVID were 10.5% and 18.1% respectively.
