College athletes with COVID-19 rarely had heart complications and could safely return to playing sports after recovery, according to new research.
Even those with abnormal cardiac test results showed no evidence of heart damage, according to the small study, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Most athletes had mild symptoms that did not require treatment.
This study confirms research published last month in Circulation, which found no cardiac problems related to COVID-19 infections in more than 3,000 college athletes during short-term clinical surveillance. Those findings also suggested athletes who had mild or no symptoms could safely resume playing sports without cardiac testing.
Heart study: Low- and regular-dose aspirin safe, effective
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
May 15, 2021
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FILE - This Aug. 23, 2018 file photo shows an arrangement of aspirin pills in New York. A large study finds that low-dose and regular-strength aspirin seem equally safe and effective for preventing additional heart problems in people who already have heart disease.Patrick Sison/AP
An unusual study that had thousands of heart disease patients enroll themselves and track their health online as they took low- or regular-strength aspirin concludes that both doses seem equally safe and effective for preventing additional heart problems and strokes.
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May 15, 2021
Treating patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) with low-dose aspirin is just as effective as using the 325-mg dose for the prevention of major cardiovascular events, and both doses are associated with a very low rate of bleeding, according to findings from the open-label, pragmatic ADAPTABLE trial.
The results, presented as a late-breaking clinical trial during the American College of Cardiology 2021 Scientific Session and published simultaneously in the
New England Journal of Medicine, suggest equivalence between the two doses and should help inform clinical practice in the United States, where there is some uncertainty about the right aspirin dose for secondary prevention, say investigators.
May 15, 2021 9:00am Researchers found that taking less than 10 minutes to seal the appendage could reduce the number of ischemic strokes by at least a third. (Pixabay)
As long as surgeons have a patient under anesthesia for one heart procedure, they may as well make it two and according to a new study, the benefits in preventing future strokes could last a lifetime.
Researchers examined whether making a quick detour during surgery to close off the left atrial appendage a small pouch in the wall of the heart muscle, where it’s believed blood can pool and form dangerous clots could help reduce the overall risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation that isn’t caused by a heart valve.