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"Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at the Yale School of Medicine, says he
worries about two kinds of long Covid. There’s the obvious version where people
suffer prolonged virus symptoms like fatigue, and a stealthier version in which
people recover yet carry an added risk of blood clots and strokes.
He doesn’t want to panic people — most of us will probably be fine. But new
studies confirm that some will develop an elevated risk of blood clots, strokes
or heart attacks. Given that most people have had Covid by now, everyone should
be more vigilant about the early warning signs such as chest pain, unusual
swelling, numbness or weakness, or sudden changes in balance, speech or vision.
Scary reports started to surface in the spring of 2020 of young people
suffering deadly strokes during or right after a Covid infection. Doctors were
starting to suspect Covid was not just a respiratory disease but a blood vessel
disease. Larger studies now back up their suspicions and showed that Covid
infections elevated everyone’s risk. That explained why younger people who
should have had almost no risk were showing up with strokes, but they were just
the tip of the iceberg. Patients who already smoked or had high blood pressure
or diabetes went from high risk to even higher.
One recent study, published in the journal
Heart — associated with the
British Medical Journal — tracked 54,000 people in the UK for four and a half
months, and concluded that those who’d been infected were 2.7 times more likely
to develop venous thromboembolism — a dangerous type of blood clot — than those
who had never been infected.
The study also showed that those who got infected but were not sick enough to
be hospitalized were still 10 times more likely to die of any cause during the
study period than their uninfected counterparts. People who’d been hospitalized
for Covid-19 were about 100 times more likely to die during the study period.
Another new study published in
Neurosurgery focused on the period when people
were actively infected, and concluded that Covid-19 infection was associated
with strokes, and that strokes that occurred in infected people were likely to
be more severe and harder to treat with surgery."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: November 10, 2022
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74473054
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
