Three years after the start of the coronavirus Pandemic, As of March 2020, researchers continue to discover new symptoms that affect the infected. Even months after having passed the disease.
researchers of the Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City (United States) have carried out a study in which they have analyzed some 150,000 patients looking for symptoms that people with the known as persistent covid. Something they suffer from “nearly 19% of adults of the United States” by which “experience signs and symptoms for four weeks or more after the initial phase of infection.
To do this, they have compared three groups of about 150,000 patients looking for cardiovascular symptoms and compared three groups:
- 148,158 over 18 years of age who tested positive for coronavirus and were treated in an outpatient setting between March 2020 through December 31, 2021.
- 148,158 patients with de tested negative who were also cared for in an outpatient setting between March 2020 through December 31, 2021.
- 148,158 personas attended between January 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019, that is, before the pandemic.
The symptom that appears six months after having passed the Covid
In the investigation they have discovered that the patients who had passed the coronavirus “had higher rates of chest pain between six months and one year” after having passed the disease.
Cardiovascular epidemiologist at Intermountain Health and principal investigator of the study, Heidi T. May, has assured that “many patients with Covid-19 experience symptoms well beyond the acute phase of the infection”. However, he added that they do not see “significant rates of major events like heart attack or stroke in patients who had a mild initial infection, we found that chest pains are a persistent problem, which could be a sign of future cardiovascular complications.”
Likewise, Dr. May has pointed out that “it could be that the lasting effects of infection in the cardiovascular system are difficult to quantify in terms of diagnoses or other events to short term and not noticeable until longer follow-up.
