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Mysore/Mysuru: As part of
International Women’s Day and World Women’s Heart Day, a Saree and Ethnic Walkathons were held in city this morning. While the Inner Wheel Club of Mysore Central held a ‘Saree Walkathon,’ Cardiology Society of India, Mysore Chapter, had organised an ‘Ethnic Walkathon.’
In the first event, Inner Wheel Club of Mysore Central conducted Saree Walkathon in two categories above 50 years and below 50 years. Karnataka Police Training School Principal Dr. Dharanidevi Malagatti, who inaugurated the event, appreciated the organisers for organising ‘Saree Walkathon’ since saree has been the symbol of rich cultural heritage of India. Through this, they have explained the importance of saree, she added.
40% of Covid-hit suffer heart muscle damage
ByDurgesh Nandan JhaDurgesh Nandan Jha / Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 06:50 IST
(This story was first published in The Times of India on Dec 17, 2020)
NEW DELHI: Data of cardiac MRI conducted as part of health research across the world has revealed that 40% of
Covid-19 recovered or active
heart muscles.
The results, which were collated and published recently in Journal of Thoracic Imaging (JTI), showed that out of 199 Covid-19 patients, mostly recovered, 90 (40%) had myocarditis or inflammation of the heart muscle. Only 21% had a normal MRI. The rest had various abnormalities, including inducible ischemia (five patients) and myopericarditis (three).
Dr Ambuj Roy, professor of cardiology at AIIMS, who is one of the authors of the study, said it was not yet clear what could be the long-term implications of the findings of the cardiac MRI on the 199 patients. “They could be self-limiting or, in rare