MIRROR LIGHTS- If you had covid-19, take extra care of your heart: Doctors MIRROR LIGHTS- If you had covid-19, take extra care of your heart: Doctors IANS / Updated: May 10, 2021, 06:00 IST heart problems and even patients with existing heart problems have felt its effects. The virus can lead to heart injury, heart failure, stroke, and damage to your heart, say doctors. “People with heart problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other co-morbidities fall into the high-risk category as they get sick from Covid. The virus not only affects the lungs and the brain but your heart as well. There is a steep rise in post-Covid patients with cardiac issues like breathing problems, chest tightness and pain, sudden palpitations, heart attack, myocarditis, swelling of the heart, low pumping capacity, heart failure, blood clotting and arrhythmia (abnormal heartbeat).