Singapore study on long Covid finds unvaccinated survivors at higher risk of heart complications

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SINGAPORE — A study involving almost 1.8 million Singaporeans and permanent residents has found that unvaccinated people who have had Covid-19 are more likely to develop heart problems a year later.

The study, led by Nanyang Technological University and published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases academic journal on Sept 25, is the first and largest to examine the risk of long Covid in a highly vaccinated, multi-ethnic Southeast Asian population, said NTU in a news release on Oct 9.

“We were motivated to conduct our study after hearing of increasing reports of long Covid syndrome. Even though we are now in the post-pandemic period, our findings remain relevant as Covid is here to stay with evolving variants, and the world will continue to need to understand its effects and safeguard ourselves," said NTU LKCMedicine's Assistant Professor Lim Jue Tao of Infectious Disease Modelling and lead author of the study.

They gave an example of 311 people who did not have dysrhythmias — or abnormal heartbeat — before being diagnosed with Covid-19, but developed symptoms a year later. The researchers also found that the risk of cardiovascular complications after being infected with Covid-19 was"evident even in mild cases who were not hospitalised".

 

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