October 14, 2024 – A historical past of COVID-19 might double the chance of coronary heart assault, stroke or loss of life, in accordance with new analysis led by Cleveland Clinic and the College of Southern California. The research discovered that folks with any sort of COVID-19 an infection had been twice as prone to expertise a severe coronary heart assault, equivalent to coronary heart assault, stroke and even loss of life, as much as three years after prognosis. The chance was considerably larger for sufferers hospitalized for COVID-19 and was extra determinative than a historical past of coronary heart illness.

Additional genetic evaluation additionally revealed that people with blood varieties apart from O (equivalent to A, B, or AB) had been twice as prone to expertise an hostile cardiovascular occasion after COVID-19 than these with O blood varieties.

Revealed in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, the researchers used knowledge from the UK Biobank of 10,005 individuals with COVID-19 and 217,730 individuals who didn’t grow to be contaminated between February and December 2020.

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