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Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to Covid-19
- auslegung 6y agoI’m unclear how severe this is but it may be reversible. Near the end of the article is this >>> A separate report by a group of U.S. doctors published in the medical journal JACC warned of the potential of heart damage to children from the novel coronavirus. The report detailed the case of a 2-month-old infant diagnosed with COVID-19 who experienced a myocardial injury as well as a type of heart failure most commonly seen in adults. "Most children with Covid-19 are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, but our case shows the potential for reversible myocardial (heart) injury in infants," said Dr. Madhu Sharma, the report’s lead author.
- postalrat 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocarditis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocarditis "Myocarditis is most often due to a viral infection." Who would have guessed a virus would cause a condition known to be caused by viruses?
- gus_massa 6y agoDid they also test student athletes that didn't have covid-19? How many of the non infected people has the same kind of problems?
- gus_massa 6y agoThe main problem is that the same symptoms are caused by other virus, and some of them last for years. So without a baseline to compare how frequent is this in the not-covid-19 infected population, it's difficult to be sure od the impact. (And also, they must sample the same population. Using number from other populations is not reliable.)