'Almost one-fourth of post-surgery patients go back with a heart pumping capacity of less than 35 per cent. They survive but they do so with a weakened heart. And this could have been avoided if they had identified symptoms and intervention had begun early,' says Dr Ambuj Roy, Professor of Cardiology
Heart disease risk is high among critically ill COVID-19 patients. Along with smoking, diabetes and obesity, COVID-19 is an additional risk factor for cardiac injury.