People infected with the COVID-19 virus in 2020 may have double the risk for future heart attacks, strokes or premature death from any cause up to three years later — even if they never showed signs of severe illness, according to new research. The risk may be considerably higher in people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.
The findings suggest that being hospitalized for COVID-19 in 2020 was a “coronary artery disease risk equivalent,” conferring a higher risk for future heart attacks, strokes or death in people without a history of cardiovascular disease than the risk for people with a history who didn’t have COVID. The continued increased risk was especially pronounced in people with non-O blood types, representing what the study’s authors say is one of the first examples of an interaction between genes and a pathogen that increases heart attack and stroke risk in people.
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