As participants at all levels resume their sports, what risks do their hearts carry if they’ve had COVID? Initial data shows the risk may be low but still possibly deadly.
Yves here. We’re running this post as an apparently badly needed reminder that the consequences of getting Covid extend beyond the risk of death, hospitalization, and missing time from work. Many who contract Covid suffer from damage that may be lasting, from serious lung abnormalities to kidney impairments and brain inflammation. This post focuses on the heart.
For sports fans across the country, the resumption of the regular sports calendar has signaled another step toward post-pandemic normality. But for the athletes participating in professional, collegiate, high school or even recreational sports, significant unanswered questions remain about the aftereffects of a covid infection.
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As participants at all levels resume their sports, what risks do their hearts carry if they’ve had COVID? Initial data shows the risk may be low but still possibly deadly.
For sports fans across the country, the resumption of the regular sports calendar has signaled another step toward post-pandemic normality. But for the athletes participating in professional, collegiate, high school or even recreational sports, significant unanswered questions remain about the aftereffects of a COVID infection.
Chief among those is whether the coronavirus can damage their hearts, putting them at risk for lifelong complications and death. Preliminary data from early in the pandemic suggested that as many as 1 in 5 people with COVID-19 could end up with heart inflammation, known as myocarditis, which has been linked to abnormal heart rhythms and sudden cardiac death.
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New study looks at the hearts of athletes who ve had COVID-19
The findings could help the general public too
and last updated 2021-03-15 14:55:35-04
Thereâs still a lot to learn about COVID-19, but doctors and researchers have figured out a new piece of the puzzle in a recent study.
âThere was a lot of early discussion about cardiac involvement with the new coronavirus,â said Dr. Matthew Martinez, Director of Sports Cardiology at the Atlantic Health System at Morristown Medical Center.
The study looked at the impacts of COVID-19 on professional athletesâ hearts.
â789 athletes over a time period that ended in October 2020, had COVID diagnosis by either PCR testing or antibody testing. And then we looked at what happened to that group,â Dr. Martinez said.