{"id":1735,"date":"2023-09-28T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2023-10-01T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T16:14:55","slug":"sars-cov-2-infects-coronary-arteries-increases-plaque-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sars-cov-2-infects-coronary-arteries-increases-plaque-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 infects coronary arteries, increases plaque inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can directly infect the arteries of the heart and cause the fatty plaque inside arteries to become highly inflamed, increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings, published in the journal <i>Nature Cardiovascular Research,<\/i> may help explain why certain people who get COVID-19 have a greater chance of developing cardiovascular disease, or if they already have it, develop more heart-related complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can directly infect the arteries of the heart and cause the fatty plaque inside arteries to become highly inflamed, increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings, published in the journal <i>Nature Cardiovascular Research,<\/i> may help explain why certain people who get COVID-19 have a greater chance of developing cardiovascular disease, or if they already have it, develop more heart-related complications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sars-cov-2-infects-coronary-arteries-increases-plaque-inflammation\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SARS-CoV-2 infects coronary arteries, increases plaque inflammation<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,409,18,36,67,85,8,14,40,51],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-coronary-arteries","tag-covid-19","tag-heart-disease","tag-inflammation","tag-national-institutes-of-health","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-strokes","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}