{"id":634,"date":"2022-03-16T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=634"},"modified":"2023-09-11T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:36:21","slug":"even-mild-covid-can-increase-the-risk-of-heart-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/even-mild-covid-can-increase-the-risk-of-heart-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Mild COVID Can Increase the Risk of Heart Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, the risk of any heart complication over the course of one year was 63&nbsp;percent higher in people who had gotten COVID compared with those in the contemporary control group. At the end of a year, there were 45&nbsp;additional cardiovascular events\u2014such as stroke or heart failure\u2014per 1,000 people among those who tested positive for COVID. The comparison with historical data yielded similar results: the risk of cardiovascular problems in the group that had COVID was 58 percent higher than what was seen in the prepandemic control group.<\/p>\n<p>When the researchers looked at people with mild COVID specifically, they found that this group had a 39 percent higher risk of developing heart problems, compared with the contemporary control group, or 28 additional cardiovascular problems per 1,000 people in 12 months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Xie, Y., Xu, E., Bowe, B. et al. Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19. <i>Nat Med<\/i> <b>28<\/b>, 583\u2013590 (2022). DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-022-01689-3\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1038\/s41591-022-01689-3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, the risk of any heart complication over the course of one year was 63&nbsp;percent higher in people who had gotten COVID compared with those in the contemporary control group. At the end of a year, there were 45&nbsp;additional cardiovascular events\u2014such as stroke or heart failure\u2014per 1,000 people among those who tested positive for COVID.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/even-mild-covid-can-increase-the-risk-of-heart-problems\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even Mild COVID Can Increase the Risk of Heart Problems<\/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":[72,18,71,36,211,11,8,14,40],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-covid-19","tag-heart-attacks","tag-heart-disease","tag-heart-failure","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-strokes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}