Covid-19 linked to impaired heart function, research finds
Researchers said the findings could change future heart and lung treatment.
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Researchers said the findings could change future heart and lung treatment.
Covid led to serious heart damage in “healthy” middle-aged patients who were more likely to die as a result, a major Scottish study found.
Research found one in three patients on ventilators had impaired function on one side of the heart.
The findings revealed that approximately 1 in 3 of the patients in the study showed evidence of abnormalities in the right side of the heart -- the area that pumps blood to the lungs.
One in eight people who were hospitalised with Covid-19 between May 2020 and March 2021 were later diagnosed with myocarditis, or heart inflammation, according to major new research into Covid's clinical long-term effects.The study, published ...