DAIC

APRIL 9, 2024

Although they had no symptoms of heart failure or blockages in arteries carrying blood to the heart, they all had structural heart disease or abnormal cardiac biomarkers that classified them as having “pre-heart failure,” putting them at high risk for developing overt symptoms of the diagnosis.

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Dr. Anish Koka

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I’m a cardiologist, and the first disconnect that became glaringly obvious very quickly was the impact COVID was having on the heart. As I walked through COVID rooms in the Spring of 2020 trying to hold my breath, I waited for a COVID cardiac tsunami. There never was a cardiac tsunami from COVID.

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 24, 2024

7 8 Sleep may have also played an underemphasized role in the COVID-19 pandemic. In a cohort of >3,000 people from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), sleeping <6 hours each night predicted a higher prevalence of stroke, heart attack, and chronic heart failure.

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