Covid took the lives of crores of people. But most of those people became victims of coronavirus and had problems like diabetes, and heart disease. It was suggested in many reports that people suffering from heart disease are more at risk than Covid. But according to a recent study, the risk of coronavirus is more for people with smoking and diabetes than for those with heart disease. Their risk of death is high.
Cardiovascular disease patients were found to have a death rate that was over 30% greater than that of severely ill COVID patients who did not have the underlying condition. That association was no longer statistically significant after risk factors like age, sex, race, smoking, and others were taken into account.
“The fact that the association between cardiovascular disease and death was so heavily diminished when accounting for comorbidities suggests that cardiovascular risk factors rather than preexisting heart disease are the main contributors to in-hospital death in patients with severe COVID-19,” said senior author Salim Hayek.
The study, which was led by academics from the University of Michigan in the US, examined the results for more than 5,100 patients with severe COVID who were admitted to intensive care units at 68 facilities across the country between March and June 2020.
In the study, 1,174 of the 5100 COVID patients had atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, or prior coronary artery disease.
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During the study period, roughly 18% of patients experienced a cardiovascular event, such as myocarditis or cardiac arrest, and about 34.6% of patients passed away within a month.
According to the study, neither patients with prior cardiac disease nor those without such disease experienced a meaningful correlation between such episodes and death.
Regardless of whether a patient had prior heart disease, researchers discovered that myocardial damage was linked to cardiovascular events and death.
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