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COVID-19's Damage to Organs Can Harm Heart, Too
https://www.medicinenet.com/covid19_damage_to_organs_can_harm_heart_too/news.htm"COVID-19 can damage a person's heart even if the coronavirus doesn't directly infect the heart tissue, a new study has found.
The severe inflammation that COVID causes in other organs, like the lungs, appears to indirectly cause heart damage associated with the infection, researchers report.
“After a COVID infection, the immune system can inflict remote damage on other organs by triggering serious inflammation throughout the body – and this is in addition to damage the virus itself has directly inflicted on the lung tissue,” senior author Dr. Matthais Nahrendorf, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, said in a news release.
For the study, researchers analyzed heart tissue samples taken from 21 patients who died with COVID-related lung failure. These samples were compared to specimens from 33 patients who died from causes unrelated to COVID...."
The severe inflammation that COVID causes in other organs, like the lungs, appears to indirectly cause heart damage associated with the infection, researchers report.
“After a COVID infection, the immune system can inflict remote damage on other organs by triggering serious inflammation throughout the body – and this is in addition to damage the virus itself has directly inflicted on the lung tissue,” senior author Dr. Matthais Nahrendorf, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, said in a news release.
For the study, researchers analyzed heart tissue samples taken from 21 patients who died with COVID-related lung failure. These samples were compared to specimens from 33 patients who died from causes unrelated to COVID...."
This may not be news to most of you, but I thought it was worth sharing.
I lost a friend, aged 55, last summer to what was likely a post-covid heart condition. She was fully vaxed, as far as I knew. She couldn't see her grandbabies if she wasn't.
I wish people took this virus more seriously.
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