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> They found that even mild COVID damaged otherwise healthy people's hearts so badly that their risk for heart problems are now comparable to those of obese peo

> They found that even mild COVID damaged otherwise healthy people's hearts so badly that their risk for heart problems are now comparable to those of obese people. > In other words, it does damage your heart. That damage might result in a heart attack, reflected in the increased hazard ratio. This seems an inaccurate reading of what's in the study. They did not find that all people who had COVID had heart damage, which would be the case if "it does damage your heart" were true. Instead it found that some previously healthy people now had some heart damage.

DiggyJohnson 5y ago
Well put, I think this should be considered the prevailing consensus for this discussion, frankly. There’s a lot of noise here…
hedora 5y ago
How did they know they were previously healthy? Did they have pre-infection health screens?
- cde-v 5y ago
  Yes, they were all vets in the VA system so their pre-infection health had been documented.
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dwaltrip 5y ago
Thanks for clarifying. What percentage of previously healthy people had heart damage from covid? Did they break this down by age and vaccination status?
- borkt 5y ago
  Just one person but i was an early case (family member went to Wuhan 1-2 times each month. During the firsr year of COVID, as early as march of 2020, i had serious issues with gut and hearth inflamation - repeated bouts that started as back pain, became chest pain, elevated heart-rate to 150 for ~3 days at a time, 24 hours a day. Gradyally the episodes became less frequent leading up to a stroke type event co current with a presumed second bout of covid. Was forced back to work about a week after the issue, and the only other coworker who was near me contracted covid about 10 days later. Following the Stroke type event I lost virtually all of my talent at writing, And ultimately my job, which was very humbling. Ive spent the past year working gig jobs when i can, and fortunately all long covid symptoms have gone away. I feel like my brain is close to 100% but i lack the confidence in myself, my memory, and my writing and am constantly second guessing myself and assume im wrong if in a contested discussion. It really sucks, yet im probably one of the lucky ones
  - kragen 5y ago
    Condolences. That's terrible. I'm glad you're doing better than you were.
- kragen 5y ago
  Finding this out would require doing mass exploratory surgery on asymptomatic people, which is obviously unethical, because it would kill a substantial number of them and damage all of their hearts.

DiggyJohnson 5y ago

Well put, I think this should be considered the prevailing consensus for this discussion, frankly. There’s a lot of noise here…

hedora 5y ago

How did they know they were previously healthy? Did they have pre-infection health screens?

cde-v 5y ago
Yes, they were all vets in the VA system so their pre-infection health had been documented.
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dwaltrip 5y ago

Thanks for clarifying. What percentage of previously healthy people had heart damage from covid? Did they break this down by age and vaccination status?

borkt 5y ago
Just one person but i was an early case (family member went to Wuhan 1-2 times each month. During the firsr year of COVID, as early as march of 2020, i had serious issues with gut and hearth inflamation - repeated bouts that started as back pain, became chest pain, elevated heart-rate to 150 for ~3 days at a time, 24 hours a day. Gradyally the episodes became less frequent leading up to a stroke type event co current with a presumed second bout of covid. Was forced back to work about a week after the issue, and the only other coworker who was near me contracted covid about 10 days later. Following the Stroke type event I lost virtually all of my talent at writing, And ultimately my job, which was very humbling. Ive spent the past year working gig jobs when i can, and fortunately all long covid symptoms have gone away. I feel like my brain is close to 100% but i lack the confidence in myself, my memory, and my writing and am constantly second guessing myself and assume im wrong if in a contested discussion. It really sucks, yet im probably one of the lucky ones
- kragen 5y ago
  Condolences. That's terrible. I'm glad you're doing better than you were.
kragen 5y ago
Finding this out would require doing mass exploratory surgery on asymptomatic people, which is obviously unethical, because it would kill a substantial number of them and damage all of their hearts.