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Covid is linked to heart problems and inflammation. Scientists found that the infection messes up how the heart beats. Similar damage in the brain may lead to brain fog.

Researchers from England and Italy have discovered an anti-aging gene in a population of centenarians that can halt decay in heart function and rewind the heart's biological age.

>> yeah. >> what's the status for him? >> when someone's heart function is not adequate, there's a couple of things that you need to do. one is that you use medicines to try to improve the heart function. that improves the amount of blood that is circulating throughout the body. but at the same time, you can sort of decrease the demand that the body has on the heart. you sort of -- you can do that by sedation. and the sedation would then require someone then be on a breathing machine. they may use something on hypothermia, something you and i have talked about. when you cool the body, you're l...

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Fibrillation, irregular heart rhythm. he was not on blood thinning medications for many of those last years, which could have protected him from stroke. unfortunately, he suffered a stroke in may, was taken to the hospital where he underwent a thrombectomy. we do this? the settling of large vessels blocked by clots or a large area of the brain at risk. he spent nine days in the hospital. they also implanted a defibrillator, for patients who have reduced heart function or another tune of arrhythmia. the his cardiologist said he has a cardiomyopathy, a weakened heart muscle function. we don't kn...