A warning for Covid-19 has been issued as fatal side effects on the heart and vascular system can occur months after a person’s first diagnosis of a virus, a study has revealed. Experts investigating post-infection diseases have found that people with coronavirus have a 72 percent higher risk of heart failure after 12 months, leading to potentially fatal consequences. Doctors also found that those who had Covid-19, no matter how severe it was, were at greater risk of suffering a stroke, a serious life-threatening medical condition that occurs when blood supply to a part of the brain is cut off. Hospital staff in one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in MerseysidePeter Byrne Other links have been found in transient ischemic attack (TIA), in which the blood supply to the brain is temporarily cut off. The study, published in Nature Medicine, looked at data from more than 11 million U.S. veterans, including 154,000 who had Covid and an estimated risk of at least 20 cardiovascular diseases. Ziyad Al-Aly, senior author of the study and head of research at the VA St. Louis said: “Covid is an equal opportunity violator. “We found an increased risk of cardiovascular problems in the elderly and young, in people with and without diabetes, in people with obesity and in people without obesity, in people who smoked and never smoked. Prevalence of Covid-19 in UKPA graphics “What really worries me is that some of these conditions are chronic conditions that will literally mark people for a lifetime.” He added: “It is not like waking up tomorrow and suddenly no longer having heart failure.” Evelina Graver, director of women’s heart health at Northwell Health in New York, told Fox News: “There were 20 heart disorders diagnosed for those patients with long-term Covid.
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“The most common are shortness of breath and fatigue. “The new arrhythmias or abnormal heart rhythms that people experience are also important and can lead to incredible disabilities for many patients.” The study period ended before vaccines became available. The findings come as Covid-19 infections in most parts of the UK remain near or at record levels, with only Scotland falling in numbers, new data show. An estimated 4.88 million people in private households in the UK were estimated to have the virus last week, well below the record 4.91 million last week. It was also revealed that almost 100 people in England are likely to have been infected four times with Covid-19, according to provisional data from the United Kingdom Health Insurance Agency (HSA). About 10,000 people are thought to have contracted the virus three times, with re-infections now accounting for about one in nine cases. A total of 890,575 episodes of re-infection have been detected in England since the outbreak of the pandemic.
