[CNA] Increased risk of heart problems one year after recovery from Covid-19, study suggests

Several years after recovering from Covid-19 disease, even after a year, people face a significantly increased risk of new heart problems, and serious ones at that, a major new US scientific study, the largest of its kind to date, shows.

The researchers, who published the paper in the medical journal Nature Medicine, according to Science and Reuters, analysed and compared data on the occurrence of new cardiovascular problems in 153,760 people infected with coronavirus, 5.6 million who were not infected and another 5.9 million before the pandemic.
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