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Rise of COVID's JN.1 Sub variant Cases in India in 2023

Wellnest

1 poses an increased risk to public health compared to other circulating variants. Yes, COVID-19 symptoms can resemble a heart attack, including chest pain, shortness of breath, and changes in echocardiogram or EKG. According to doctors, there is no evidence, as per the WHO, that JN.1 Risk posed by JN.1

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Italy’s Pioneering Push for Telemedicine. Supported by AI

Cardiomatics

For instance, the average waiting time for an echocardiogram at Turin’s Molinette Hospital was 31 days in 2016 and an even longer 53 days for a Holter ECG. Prior to the new regulation, getting a consultation with a cardiologist or getting a needed diagnostic cardiology test often involved long waiting times.

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Prevalence and Mortality of Heart Failure Stages in a Free‐Living Older Adult Population: Data From the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundHeart failure (HF) has a major impact on public health. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and mortality of HF stages in a Brazilian adult cohort of participants 60 years old and over.MethodsThe ELSABrasil (Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health) multicentric cohort comprises 15 105 adults.

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The latest CDC paper on vaccine myocarditis is NOT reassuring

Dr. Anish Koka

The overarching message of the keep-it-simple ethos of public health as it came to the cases of myocarditis that have been reported primarily in young men since April 2021 was to quickly pivot from denying any link existed to referring to myocarditis after vaccines as ‘mild’ and a brief inconvenience.

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A COVID19 vaccine exemption letter

Dr. Anish Koka

4 An accompanying editorial 5 notes “Data from COVID-Heart provide reassuring evidence that myocarditis, once predicted to be an emerging public health crisis attributable to COVID-19, is relatively uncommon even among hospitalized patients and is less virulent than predicted during the early days of the pandemic.

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New Study Finds Early Coronary Disease, Impaired Heart Function in Asymptomatic People with HIV

DAIC

Approximately 39 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2022, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2010, HIV-related deaths have been reduced by 51%, but HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, claiming 40.4 million lives so far.