Rapid response needed to address spike in heart disease cases linked to COVID-19: expert
Global News
A Canadian heart researcher says investment in basic research is needed to address the surge in cardiovascular cases linked to COVID-19.
A Canadian heart researcher says a rapid response is needed to address the surge in cardiovascular cases linked to COVID-19 following recent studies that show the virus can increase a person’s risk of developing heart problems.
“This is not new…. We’ve known about it for a long time that the risk is there … and now what we’re seeing two or three years in is that the risk is starting to manifest,” Dr. Glen Pyle, professor of biomedical science at the University of Guelph and a heart researcher, told Global News.
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Pyle pointed to a study called Long COVID-19: A Primer for Cardiovascular Health Professionals in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology published in 2021, which states that “cardiac injury has been documented in up to 45 per cent of inpatients with COVID-19 and has been linked to worse outcomes” like a stroke or heart failure.
“Clinicians are seeing these complications…. That’s why we need to respond rapidly because these things take a while. But once they pop up, it’s very difficult to reverse,” said Pyle.
In a recent U.S. study published in late September by the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, researchers found that “deaths from heart attacks rose significantly during pandemic surges, including the COVID-19 Omicron surges, overall reversing a heart-healthier pre-pandemic trend.”
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The study, which was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Virology, showed that the increase in deaths caused by a heart attack could be “tracked with surges of COVID-19 infection—even during the presumed less-severe Omicron phase of the pandemic.”
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