Posted on 10/06/2023 2:42:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In some ways, the link between viruses, vaccines and heart health is simple.
Think of your heart as a house, said Dr. Jorge Alvarez, an interventional cardiologist at Methodist Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio. "You have the walls of your house, which are like the walls of your heart. You have the doors, which are the valves. And then you have plumbing and electricity.
"A virus can affect all of those aspects of your house," he said.
That makes being vaccinated against COVID-19, flu and other illnesses an important way for people with heart disease to protect themselves.
That fact can get lost in the swirl of new information, not to mention misinformation, surrounding vaccines. Now that the updated COVID-19 vaccine is available – and can be given at the same time as the flu shot – here are more straightforward answers from the experts on what people with cardiovascular issues should know about viruses and vaccines.
Viruses pose serious heart risks
Heart issues and infection are linked in many ways. One is inflammation, said Dr. Saate Shakil, an assistant professor of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Diseases caused by viruses, such as the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, can cause inflammation. So can bacterial illnesses such as pneumonia.
If you have coronary heart disease, blood flow is restricted by plaque-filled arteries. In such cases, inflammation could lead to a plaque rupture, blood clot and blocked artery that causes a heart attack or stroke, said Shakil, who has studied links between COVID-19 and stroke.
Other research has shown:
– Problems such as heart attacks and heart failure (the inability of the heart to pump properly) occur in about 20% of adults hospitalized with RSV, according to a 2018 study in the Journal of
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Houston Chronicle. Don’t bother.
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Heart attack deaths peak during flu season every year.
Uh, anybody who got the plethora of CONvid shots and boosters will have heart damage.
🔬🤔😵🐑😷💉💊🐂💨💩. 🚫🔓! 🖕
Doesn’t everything depend on the vaxxine ingredients?
2018 study is pre-covid. Thus useless.
I used to hawk The Houston Chronicle on the street corners as a kid.
How much was it?
You forgot the gag alert
This is a good question, especially the Sunday Edition, but I don’t remember.
I also worked for the Houston Press when it was a newspaper and the Houston Post.
Over time I had paper routes for all three and of course, read them as a kid which helps give me a memory for a lot of past events that some don’t have.
Treating the mRNA shot as just another vaccine invalidates the article and everyone associated with the article.
LOL, what a load of crap.
This reminds me of that BS phrase: "The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated".
" Think of your heart as a house, said Dr. Jorge Alvarez, an interventional cardiologist at Methodist Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio.
"You have the walls of your house, which are like the walls of your heart.
You have the doors, which are the valves.
And then you have plumbing and electricity.
"A virus can affect all of those aspects of your house," he said."
"That makes being vaccinated against COVID-19, flu and other illnesses an important way for people with heart disease to protect themselves."
"That fact can get lost in the swirl of new information, not to mention misinformation, surrounding vaccines.
Now that the updated COVID-19 vaccine is available – and can be given at the same time as the flu shot – here are more straightforward answers from the experts on what people with cardiovascular issues should know about viruses and vaccines."
"Viruses pose serious heart risks"
"Heart issues and infection are linked in many ways.
One is inflammation, said Dr. Saate Shakil, an assistant professor of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco."
"Diseases caused by viruses, such as the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, can cause inflammation.
So can bacterial illnesses such as pneumonia."
"If you have coronary heart disease, blood flow is restricted by plaque-filled arteries.
In such cases, inflammation could lead to a plaque rupture, blood clot and blocked artery that causes a heart attack or stroke,
said Shakil, who has studied links between COVID-19 and stroke."
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Left unexplained is how a vaccine that does not protect you from covid protects you from the effects of covid or how a vaccine that unleashes spike protein into your blood vessels which is known to cause inflammation protects you from inflammation.
BS
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