COVID-19’s Hidden Danger: Double the Risk of Heart Attacks! 

United States: According to a recent study, individuals who already contracted severe COVID-19 infections during the pandemic’s initial wave may be twice as likely to experience heart attacks and strokes. According to this research, which was published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, there is a three-year potential duration for this elevated risk.  

Researchers examined the risks to unvaccinated people’s long-term heart health who became seriously ill with COVID-19 in 2019 and 2020. It is crucial to comprehend these hazards in order to maintain everyone’s health! It was also found that for anyone, who had COVID -19 at least once in their life, the risk of heart attack, stroke or death was two times higher than for a person who never got infected: and if the person had to be hospitalized, the risk was 4 times as high.

As reported by the abc news, the elevated danger last over three years from the initial infection and the study points to it as a deadly cardiovascular hazard equivalent to type 2 diabetes.

Surprisingly, other research indicates that severe COVID-19 infection is a catastrophic part of it, the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Hooman Allayee, said to ABC News. Mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases over the period from 2010 to 2019 were decreasing year by year. Then, within the space of 2 years between 2020 and 2022, ten years of effort [was] down the drain because of the pandemic caused by COVID19. 

Analyzing blood type and Covid-19 mortality risk: people with A,B ant AB blood type faced higher risks of getting into cardiovascular complications from the virus whereas people of O type had lesser susceptibilities towards it from the study. 

“Blood type is however a known factor in heart attack and stroke risk,” said Allayee who is a professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. “This Group of blood type, A, B and AB veins are more vulnerable to HIV infection since these blood cells have their ports to the viruses more open.” 

The study compared participants from the UK Biobank, which includes mostly data collected from the older, wealthier, and mostly white population. However, similar studies examining other populations yielded more or less similar conclusions, said Allayee. 

Allayee said that the study pushed on COVID-19 vaccinations. 

 No matter what and which vaccine you got just six months after the vaccination or the booster the chance of the heart attack and the stroke went down that’s what he said. But the immunity wanes over time and which is why you need the boosters and if not you could be the susceptible to getting severe COVID again.” 

Anyone who has ever had a severe and like very serious COVID-19 infection especially if they required a hospital stay and should discuss the potentially increased health hazards caused by the susceptible to getting the severe COVID again.” 

Talk to your doctor and start the discussion with your physician he said. And it’s not going away so we have to start talking about it.