Infection with the coronavirus not only has a strong impact on the immune system, it also entails a greatly increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death after illness. The death rate rises to 81 times in the first three weeks, but after 18 months it is still five times that of uninfected people.
This is the conclusion of a study with British data that has now been published in the journal “Cardiovascular Research”. “Covid-19 patients were much more likely to develop a whole range of cardiovascular diseases than non-infected people. That could have contributed to their higher risk of death,” said Ian Wong of the University of Hong Kong in a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) broadcast about the scientific work.
Monitoring recommended after corona contamination
“The study results suggest that Covid-19 patients should be followed for at least one year after recovery from acute illness to detect cardiovascular complications of the infection, which are part of Long Covid.”
“Compared to the two groups of uninfected people, Covid-19 patients had about four times the risk of developing severe cardiovascular disease in the acute phase (three weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection; note). This risk was 40 percent higher in the post-acute illness period (up to a year and a half; note),” according to the European Society of Cardiology.
Enormously increased mortality
The mortality showed a sometimes dramatic effect of Covid-19. “Compared to uninfected people, the risk of death among covid-19 patients was up to 81 times higher in the acute phase and still five times higher afterwards (18 months; note).”
The risk of stroke only increased in the short term
There were differences between the acute phase of Covid-19 and the time afterwards in the frequency of various cardiovascular diseases: while the increased number of heart attacks, heart failure or deep vein thrombosis was the same in both periods, the risk of strokes, for for example, only increases for a short period of time, before falling back to “normal levels”. People with severe Covid-19 disease were more likely to have cardiovascular complications than patients with mild SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Source: Krone
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