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recent bookmarks from jmCOVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery | Science2022-02-10T10:06:54+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-takes-serious-toll-heart-health-full-year-after-recovery
jmIn an analysis of more than 11 million U.S. veterans’ health records, researchers found the risk of 20 different heart and vessel maladies was substantially increased in veterans who had COVID-19 1 year earlier, compared with those who didn’t. The risk rose with severity of initial disease and extended to every outcome the team examined, including heart attacks, arrhythmias, strokes, cardiac arrest, and more. Even people who never went to the hospital had more cardiovascular disease than those who were never infected.
The results are “stunning … worse than I expected, for sure,” says Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Research. “All of these are very serious disorders. … If anybody ever thought that COVID was like the flu this should be one of the most powerful data sets to point out it’s not.” He adds that the new study “may be the most impressive Long Covid paper we have seen to date.” [...]
“In the post-COVID era, COVID might become the highest risk factor for cardiovascular outcomes,” greater than well-documented risks such as smoking and obesity, says Larisa Tereshchenko.
]]>covid-19 health medicine long-covid sars-cov-2 heart strokehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6dcdd8f2e6a1/Data from pacemaker used to arrest man for arson, insurance fraud2017-02-05T22:26:20+00:00
http://www.zdnet.com/article/data-from-pacemaker-used-to-arrest-man-for-arson-insurance-fraud/
jmCompton has medical conditions which include an artificial heart linked to an external pump. According to court documents, a cardiologist said that "it is highly improbable Mr. Compton would have been able to collect, pack and remove the number of items from the house, exit his bedroom window and carry numerous large and heavy items to the front of his residence during the short period of time he has indicated due to his medical conditions."
After US law enforcement caught wind of this peculiar element to the story, police were able to secure a search warrant and collect the pacemaker's electronic records to scrutinize his heart rate, the demand on the pacemaker and heart rhythms prior to and at the time of the incident.
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