May 12, 2021
Mild cases of COVID-19 that do not require hospitalization are unlikely to have any lasting cardiovascular effect on otherwise healthy individuals, a study of British healthcare workers suggests. Published the same week, the latest in a series of analyses looking at college athletes who recovered from mild COVID also found no evidence of cardiac damage on imaging.
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At 6 months, mild infections “left no measurable cardiovascular impact on LV structure, function, scar burden, aortic stiffness, or serum biomarkers,” write the UK researchers, led by George Joy, MBBS (Barts Heart Centre, London, England). The study, which compared healthcare professionals who did not test positive for COVID-19 (75 subjects) with those who did (74 subjects), was presented last weekend at the EuroCMR meeting and simultaneously published in