https://voxday.net/2023/01/31/so-many-unanswered-questions/A new study has been published that links the increase in heart attacks amongst adults between the ages of 25 and 44 to COVID-19. The study was conducted by the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and published in the Journal of Medical Virology. Researchers discovered that overall heart attacks increased for all age groups since the onset of the pandemic by 14 percent.
By the second year of the pandemic [2022], heart attacks for the 45-64 age group increased by 19.6% and for the 65 and older group had increased by 13.7%. However, it was the youngest age group [25-44] that had the highest increase of nearly 30%.
“There are several potential explanations for the rapid rise in cardiac deaths in patients with COVID-19, yet still many unanswered questions,” said Yee Hui Yeo, MD, first author of the study and a Cedars-Sinai physician-scientist. “Importantly, our results highlight disparities in mortality that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and that are persisting even through the Omicron era,” added Yeo.
Researchers said that prior to the pandemic, world statistics on heart attacks were decreasing but the pandemic had interrupted that progress.
