People hospitalized for COVID-19 early in the pandemic suffered an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other serious 'cardiac events,' researchers say.
People hospitalized for COVID-19 early in the pandemic suffered an increased risk of serious 'cardiac events' such as heart attacks and strokes that was akin to people with a history of heart disease, a newly released study has found. Researchers from USC, UCLA and the Cleveland Clinic analyzed more than 10,000 COVID cases tracked by the UK Biobank to examine how COVID affected the risk of heart attacks and other cardiac threats.
The study indicates that the increased risk 'shows no apparent signs of attenuation up to nearly three years after SARS-CoV-2 infection and suggest that COVID-19 continues to pose a significant public health burden with lingering adverse cardiovascular risk,' they wrote. Scientists also found that the risk differed by blood type: Being hospitalized for COVID ramped up the risks among people with blood types A, B or AB more than it did among people with type O blood.
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