Posted on 02/10/2022 10:02:20 AM PST by libh8er
The results are “stunning ....” says Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Research … "If anybody ever thought that COVID was like the flu this should be one of the most powerful data sets to point out it’s not.” He adds that the new study “may be the most impressive Long Covid paper we have seen to date.”
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“This is clearly evidence of long-term heart and vascular damage. Similar things could be happening in the brain and other organs resulting in symptoms characteristic of Long Covid, including brain fog,” says senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.
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The researchers drew on the largest set of electronic health records in the United States, at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). They analyzed data from nearly 154,000 people who contracted COVID-19 between March 2020 and January 2021, and who survived at least 30 days after becoming infected. They also identified two control groups: 5.6 million people who sought VA care during the pandemic but were not diagnosed with COVID-19, and 5.9 million people who sought VA care in 2017.
One limitation of the study is that the veteran population skews older, white, and male: In all three groups, about 90% of patients were men and 71% to 76% were white. Patients were in their early 60s, on average.
The researchers controlled for the possibility that the people who contracted COVID-19 were already more prone to developing cardiovascular disease. They found that “COVID is an equal opportunity offender,” Al-Aly says. “We found an increased risk of cardiovascular problems in old people and in young people, in people with diabetes and without diabetes, in people with obesity and people without obesity, in people who smoked and who never smoked.”
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Another freeper who can't read or comprehend. The words vaccine and vaccination appear 43 times in the report. 15 in the text and 28 in the tables/data. How the impact of vaccination was removed is well explained. Believe it or don't.
They aren't familiar with FR flubros are they?
Could be, but that would be a good reason to shut these clot shots down now.
You are the nut. Don’t ever post to me again. You knock everyone on this site as though you are somehow above people here.
Go away and stuff a sock in it.
So then people dropping over like flies from heart attacks after colds is a common occurrence?
Yup
No... but doing so after getting the jab for the covid or its reated boosters often clearly is.
Re: 41 - The level of ignorance and laziness is somewhat high when several FReepers do not even read the report before writing that vaccinations are not mentioned or accounted for in the research.
But that’s the way it is with some posters. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel some days to document the laziness.
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