A common post-covid syndrome manifests itself even after a year of mild illness.

COVID-19 infection leads to increased levels of chest pain even six months or a year after infection in patients, even if they had a mild illness.

This was shown by the results of a study by American physicians from the medical organization Intermountain Health (Salt Lake City), who studied almost 150 thousand of their patients for cardiovascular symptoms, EurekAlert reports.

In total, the observed patients could be divided into three groups:

• 148,000 people aged 18+ who tested positive for COVID-19 and were treated on an outpatient basis from March 2020 to December 31, 2021;
• 148,000 COVID-negative patients of approximately the same age and sex seen in the same months as COVID-19 positive patients;
• 148,000 patients followed between January 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019 as a historical control group to understand how patients’ access to care differed during the worst period of the pandemic.

It turned out that patients who tested positive for COVID-19 had higher rates of chest pain six months to a year after infection, but they did not experience any other cardiovascular complications.

Many patients with COVID-19 experience symptoms well beyond the acute phase of the infection, the researchers note. “While we did not observe significant rates of serious events such as heart attack or stroke in patients who initially had a mild initial infection, we found that chest pain is an ongoing problem that may be a sign of future cardiovascular complications.

Scientists note that these symptoms are not necessarily evidence of future severe consequences, but over time this will likely need to be reassessed.

It is possible that the long-term impact of infection on the cardiovascular system is difficult to quantify in terms of diagnoses or other short-term events, and it will not manifest itself until a longer follow-up is carried out, the researchers note.

Source: EurekAlert

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