{"id":9355,"date":"2025-10-29T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9355"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:29:13","slug":"covid-and-flu-can-triple-your-risk-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-and-flu-can-triple-your-risk-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, a new study affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of a heart attack triples within the first few weeks after a Covid-19 infection, the study suggested, and quadruples in the month after a flu infection. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, was a large review and analysis of existing research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt endorses a general idea that we\u2019ve been thinking about and talking about for the past several years \u2014 that infections are generally not benign,\u201d said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a senior clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, who was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may start as a respiratory virus, but that\u2019s really the tip of the iceberg, and it has downstream ramifications in multiple organ systems, specifically in this case in the cardiovascular space,\u201d Dr. Al-Aly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of a heart attack triples within the first few weeks after a Covid-19 infection, the study suggested, and quadruples in the month after a flu infection. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, was a large review and analysis of existing research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt endorses a general idea that we\u2019ve been thinking about and talking about for the past several years \u2014 that infections are generally not benign,\u201d said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a senior clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, who was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-and-flu-can-triple-your-risk-of-heart-attack\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,18,71,36,77,8,14,51,15],"class_list":["post-9355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-covid-19","tag-heart-attacks","tag-heart-disease","tag-influenza","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355","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=9355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}