How wave of heart attacks in young people may be being fueled by COVID READ MORE: Alarming rise of 'super-fit' young people suffering heart attacks By Maiya Focht Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 10:00 BST, 9 October 2024 | Updated: 10:00 BST, 9 October 2024 e-mail View comments People who get sick with Covid are at a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes years after clearing the infection, a major study suggests. Using data from over 200,000 people who caught Covid in 2020, researchers found the more sick someone was, the more likely they are to have heart problems.
Overall, being infected with Covid doubled someone's risk of a heart attack or stroke at least three years after the initial infection. And patients who were hospitalized because of the virus were four times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those who didn't get it. It comes as doctors search for clues as to why fatal heart attacks in people under 45 have been increasing.
Some point to the the Covid virus as a cause. Data shows that heart attack cases are on the rise, Dr Bhatt said, but doctors are still disagreeing over what could be causing the uptick Two weeks after falling ill with Covid TV doctor Xand van Tulleken thought he was on the mend, when he suddenly took a turn for the worse Dr Stanley Hazen, the chair of cardiovascular and metabolic sciences at Cleveland Clinic and co-author of the study, said: 'The results included nearly a quarter million people and point to a find.
