How COVID-19 is causing scary heart incidents among children
San Antonio pediatric cardiologist seeing more children who think they’re having a heart attack
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SAN ANTONIO – February is the the American Heart Association’s Heart Month, a time when good heart health should be at the forefront and something that COVID-19 tends to overshadow.
But right now, there’s a trend that pediatric cardiologists are seeing that co-mingles the two in a scary way for parents, who see their child complain of a rapid heart rate and feeling sick and think they’re having a heart attack.
Dr. Elaine Maldonado, a pediatric cardiologist at UT Health San Antonio, said increasingly, alarmed parents are bringing their children into her office, worried their loved one is suffering from a heart condition.