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Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday March 6, 2022, p. eleven
Paris. Some doctors wonder if heart risks may appear months after contracting COVID-19, but it’s still too early to establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
Cardiovascular clinical follow-up is essential for all people with a covid-19 infection, even benign
declared earlier this week the French Academy of Medicine, the consensus body in this field in France.
Covid-19 and cardiovascular diseases maintain a dangerous relationship
he said, basing himself on several recent studies.
Extensive research, carried out in the United States and published in February by the journal Nature, points to a significant increase in cardiovascular diseases worldwide
after the pandemic.
The study measured the frequency of cardiovascular problems in the year after COVID-19 infection in more than 150,000 US Army veterans and compared it with that of other veterans who were not infected.
After 30 days post-infection, individuals with covid-19 are at increased risk of cardiovascular disorders
concludes the study, citing heart attacks, inflammation of the heart or strokes.
this risk exists even in individuals who were not hospitalized
by covid-19, indicates the document. But in these cases the risk is lower.
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach warned that there could be an increase in coronavirus infections in summer in Germany.
The pandemic has left 444 million 591 thousand 59 confirmed cases and 5 million 993 thousand 388 deaths in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.
