Researchers say the chances of a major cardiovascular event in the first year increases with the severity of the initial illness
Heart damage from Covid-19 extends well beyond the disease’s initial stages, according to a study that found even people who were never sick enough to need hospitalisation are in danger of developing heart failure and deadly blood clots a year later.
“The aftereffects of Covid-19 are substantial,” said Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the clinical epidemiology centre at the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri, who led the research. “Governments and health systems must wake up to the reality that Covid will cast a tall shadow in the form of long Covid, and has devastating consequences. I am concerned that we are not taking this seriously enough.
The data was collected from the largest integrated health-care system in the US. Most of its users are white and male, which may limit how generalisable the study’s findings are to other groups, the authors said.
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