Persistent COVID infection may increase incidents of heart attacks, brain strokes: Health expert

A study on Covid showed an increased chance of brain strokes and heart attacks. The study is based on a huge data from the West.

New Delhi: A persistent COVID infection for a longer period of time, even though mild, may affect and has the potential to increase the incidents of heart attacks and brain strokes in patients, according to the top health experts on September 05. According to Dr Ashok Seth, Chairman, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, a study found an increase of 60 per cent in the incidents of heart-related issues and neurological disorders.
Speaking to media, Dr Seth said, "There is a large data from the west, which has noticed that over a period of a year and more than a hundreds and thousands of patients study, there was a 60 per cent increase in the incidents of heart attacks or even strokes compared to the normal population at the same period of time. So we are very clear that COVID, even though mild, may affect people for a longer duration up to a year and create increased incidents of heart attacks and strokes." (ANI)