Langes COVID mit erhöhtem Risiko für Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen verbunden. Das Risiko für Erkrankungen wie Herzrhythmusstörungen und koronare Herzkrankheit ist auch bei Personen höher, die während der akuten Infektion nicht im Krankenhaus waren.
https://news.ki.se/long-covid-associated-with-increased-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease
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Long COVID associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease
People with long COVID are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in eClinicalMedicine. The results show that the risk of conditions such as cardiac arrhythmias and coronary artery disease is higher even among those who were not hospitalised during the acute infection.
Of the just over 1.2 million people aged between 18 and 65 included in the study, around 9,000 had been diagnosed with long COVID, corresponding to 0.7 per cent. Two-thirds of them were women. People who had previously had cardiovascular disease or been hospitalised for COVID-19 were excluded from this group.
During the follow-up period of around four years, people with long COVID were more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease: 18.2 per cent of women and 20.6 per cent of men experienced some form of cardiovascular event, compared with 8.4 per cent of women and 11.1 per cent of men in the group without long COVID.
When the researchers then adjusted the results for factors such as age, socio-economic status and other known risk factors, the differences remained. Women with long COVID had just over twice the risk of receiving a cardiovascular diagnosis compared with women without long COVID. Men had approximately a third higher risk.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(26)00093-3/fulltext
The four year follow-up makes this especially hard to ignore because it suggests the added risk is not just a short tail after infection. I would want to see how tightly severity and reinfection history were captured.
This isn’t exactly new information, but I’m 1000% for anything that might get people to remember that Covid is *not* “just a cold” and that yes, it’s still very much a problem.
My wife and I both had covid and were fully vaccinated. Towards the tail end of the pandemic my wife’s heart valve failed abruptly and had to be replaced. She was 39 years old at the time; anecdotal but thought I’d share.