The coronavirus does not always have to be related to serious symptoms, but it can still lead to serious long-term effects.
That was the result of a new study from Frankfurt.
Frankfurt - The fact that the
corona virus
should not be taken lightly should be determined at the latest with regard to the current numbers of
corona deaths
.
Despite all of this, the virus and its
long-term consequences are
still largely unexplored.
Precisely because of the ever-changing prepare
Corona studies
concerns about
long-term effects
after
contracting the virus.
Not entirely without good reason, as a new study from Frankfurt showed.
Symptoms: How is the coronavirus related to possible heart damage?
As a result of an
investigation involving 100 people who
were already infected
with the
coronavirus
, researcher
Valentina Puntmann
and her colleagues came to a new conclusion.
The
images of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
showed that the
coronavirus
not only
causes
damage to the lungs
, but can also
affect
the
health of the heart
, and not too narrowly.
A total of
53 men and 47 women
with an average age of 49 years took part in the
study by
the
University Clinic Frankfurt
.
All those involved had already been
infected
with the
corona
virus
in advance
and had just got the infection behind them.
Of all test persons, 36 still had to struggle with exhaustion and shortness of breath after the virus.
The
most common
corona symptom
at
41 percent
was
cough
.
This is followed by a fever of
31 percent
and a cold at
24 percent.
Disturbances of the sense of smell and / or taste had around
21 percent.
Even without corona symptoms: a Frankfurt study found that test subjects struggle with heart problems
In addition, the
heart function of the subjects was
examined using an MRI.
The result: About
78 percent of
reported
irregularities at its heart
, about
60 percent
were even affected by a heart muscle inflammation.
According to the
Frankfurt study
, neither
any previous illnesses
nor the
duration of recovery had
an impact on the research results.
It is also
frightening
that the newly acquired knowledge about
abnormalities in the heart is
independent of the severity of the disease.
Of 100 people examined,
67
simply cured
themselves at
home,
18
fell ill with
corona patients
had no symptoms and
49 had a
moderate course of disease.
Conversely, this means that heart damage can also occur if the disease is mild and there are no previous illnesses.
Nevertheless, Valentina Puntmann and her colleagues make it clear that the consequences of an
abnormality in the heart
after
infection
cannot yet be clearly defined with this study.
The researchers published their results in the journal
JAMA Cardiology.
(mrf)
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