People with heart disease and high blood pressure are more likely to get COVID-19 and have more severe symptoms. A cardiologist answers the top questions he's getting from his patients right now:
continues its devastating spread across the country and the world, we are learning new information daily that is important for those with heart disease who want to stay healthy.
Now, in particular, is not the time to take on additional risk, such as needing to go to an emergency room. Not only are hospitals possibly where acquiring COVID-19 is more likely, the healthcare systems in many parts of the world are overwhelmed. With limited resources, they have to alter the care typically used for those with emergency heart conditions.
Why are those with heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes at higher risk of severe illness and death with COVID-19? There is increasing evidence of direct heart involvement in about 20% of patients with COVID-19. Inflammation of the heart, heart attack, heart failure, and life-threatening heart rhythm problems have all been reported, and the patients with heart involvement tend to do particularly poorly.
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