Part of the problem, is I am really beginning to think "science" simply hasn't figured out, all it needs to. Every month that goes by, we seem to learn a little more. Like organ damage. Permanent organ damage.
I have high cholesterol. At "risk" of CVD, like millions of others. I could live another 40 years with that, I could have a major coronary tomorrow. Or I could contract Covid and my heart could give out.
Latest news on COVID-19 & CVD
For more information on the link between COVID-19 and CVD, please visit The Heart in the Time of COVID-19 blog.
November 2020: As the COVID-19 second wave set in, the British Heart Foundation said that almost 5,000 more people in England have died from heart problems than would be expected since the start of the pandemic and urged people not to put off seeking care.
September 2020: Evidence suggests that even people diagnosed with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic could be at risk of developing heart problems. However, much more data is still required before making further conclusions.
○ In July, 60 of the 100 patients reviewed for a study in JAMA Cardiology showed some signs of myocarditis.
○ Another study published in the same paper detected evidence of possible myocarditis in 5 of 26 athletes in the United States (US) who experienced the virus with mild or no symptoms.
○ Doctors at Edinburgh University examined echocardiograms from more than 1,200 COVID-19 patients in 69 countries and found heart problems in 55%, with 1 in 7 exhibiting signs of “severe abnormalities”.
My fiance is a cancer survivor. They are still figuring out the risk to that demographic. She could live decades. Covid could result in her passing on...
When we say "the straw that broke the camels back". That's what we say, that's how we have always treated things. Whether it's someone fighting pnuemonia, and has a heart attack....Or someone with perfectly survivable Asthma.....We don't talk about 1,000 other straws, it's the proverbial last straw.
This entire "co-morbidity" thing is just "nuts". Like so much else.
Given what they are starting to find, with respect to hearts. Thankfully my BP is stellar, millions of people cant say the same, but could live long lives with high BP....
And Covid could be "the last straw"...for some of them.
COVID-19 and CVD - World Heart Federation (world-heart-federation.org)