Myocarditis can cause chest pain, shortness of breath, and irregular heartbeat.
found that risk of developing myocarditis is seven times higher with a COVID-19 infection than with the COVID-19 vaccine. It also finds that the risk of myocarditis was 15 times higher in COVID-19 patients, regardless of vaccination status.“Our findings show that the risk of myocarditis from being infected by COVID-19 is far greater than from getting the vaccine,” Navya Voleti, a resident physician in the department of medicine at Penn State, said.
A team from the Penn State College of Medicine reviewed an analyzed 22 international studies published between December 2019 and May 2022. The studies included nearly 58 million patients, all of whom reported cardiac issues. The patients belonged to either the vaccination group or the COVID-19 group. The vaccination group included 55.5 million who were vaccinated against COVID-19 compared to those who were not vaccinated. The COVID-19 group included the 2.5 million who contracted the virus compared to those who did not contract the virus.
Within the vaccination group, the researchers separately compared the risk of myocarditis for various COVID-19 vaccines, including the mRNA vaccines , Novavax, AstraZeneca, and Johnson and Johnson.Among those diagnosed with myocarditis after receiving the vaccine or having COVID-19, the majority were male. Of patients diagnosed with myocarditis in both vaccination and COVID-19 groups, 1.07 percent were hospitalized and 0.015 percent died.
“COVID-19 infection and the related vaccines both pose a risk for myocarditis. However, the relative risk of heart inflammation induced by COVID-19 infection is substantially greater than the risk posed by the vaccines,” Paddy Ssentongo, a resident physician in the department of medicine at Penn State and the lead author of the study,The findings come after claims on social media that the
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