In a new review study from the University of Oxford, researchers found the impact of Long COVID impact on the cardiovascular system.
The review spans each step from a patient’s original coronavirus infection and the direct impacts, such as heart attack or heart inflammation, to the long-term impacts on aspects of wellbeing such as mental health and fatigue.
The researchers also concluded that current evidence for the treatment of long COVID is lacking and that our current understanding of the health condition remains limited.
In the study, the team reviewed the wide-ranging effects of long COVID on patients’ health.
The team says the pandemic brought not only acute illness and death, it became a chronic disease of many organs, not just the lungs, but the heart, brain, kidney among others.
Long Covid is, besides its huge impact for the affected individual, of great societal and economic importance as it leads to leaving of absence from work, reduced work performance and hence unforeseen costs.
If you care about Long COVID, please read studies about why some people get ‘long COVID’ while others don’t, and how Long COVID could harm your immune system.
For more information about COVID, please see recent studies about men with low testosterone more likely to die from COVID-19, and results showing that people with COVID-19 recover faster with this treatment.
The study is published in the European Heart Journal and was conducted by Dr Betty Raman et al.
Copyright © 2022 Knowridge Science Report. All rights reserved.
