This is interesting to contrast with the numerous studies mentioned here: https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/14/setting-the-record-strai...
science at work.
we have a saying that only cows don't change their mind.
Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
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Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
#172Is it soaring after the illness or after the medical intervention?
These are 2 different things. The vaccines obviously have not had any long term testing.
Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
#173And lung cancer risk soars with a few cigarettes. Stop living in fear! Accept that you are going to die at some point! Make decisions rationally and then move on and live!!!
Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone will eventually be exposed to covid (probably repeatedly). It's possible with vaccinations that not everyone will be infected with covid however, as even against omicron it appears 3 doses of vaccine (especially a mix of pfizer and moderna) provide efficacy of 60%+ for at least 15 weeks. Omicron-specific versions of the mRNA vaccines are also already in testing, so I would hope those will be available for fu…
Related to your "exposed to" vs "infected" point, I've been wanting to check my understanding on something, and hopefully someone here can provide a more informed opinion. Immunity can be boosted through exposure, right? For instance, if someone was vaccinated, but then exposed and was lucky enough not to develop an infection from their exposure, are they immunologically better off as a result of that exposure? I thi…
Immunity can be boosted through exposure (indeed, this is one of the reasons why we may be seeing higher rates of shingles in young people, or why we see occasional outbreaks of pertussis in people who were vaccinated awhile back).
But for that, you are, at most, looking for the occasional transient exposure - not the bombardment that one is getting right now.
Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had Delta once. Prior to it I would ride 30 miles on my bike like it was a breezy day. When I'd take breaks to vacation or whatever I could pick back up easily. A year after COVID, I'm struggling to hit 20 miles and I lose my progress easily. I'm not sure it's COVID related, but nothing else has changed in my life.
Lockdowns have also broken everyone’s regular exercise and healthy habits. On charts we all assign this to Covid, but lockdowns were an artificial, additional decision.
I experienced the opposite effect described here, and I ascribe the positive effects to lockdown. Before COVID, I ran about 5km once a month, and I was pretty slow.
I got COVID early on in February 2020, and while it initially seemed mild, the tail end was severe. Pain that made me worry I might have been having a mini-stroke, and after that lung issues making it painful to take a shallow breath. After a week or so, it was just painful to breathe deeply but otherwise OK.
I started doing low heart-rate running, trying to keep my HR below 132. Initially, this was really hard, and even jogging slightly too fast could cause my HR to spike to 180 and stay there for 5 minutes. But over the next couple of weeks as my lungs improved again, it got better and better. Within a few months, I was doing at least 5km every time I went for a run, and running 3 or 4 times a week. I've got faster and faster as a result, and I've knocked a third off my 5km PB time from pre-COVID.
My health hasn't been better for many years, and that's only because the lockdown conditions meant that I was working from home so could take a long break at lunchtime, we were allowed out for exercise, but otherwise the streets were deserted. I think lockdown was the best thing that's ever happened to me in terms of exercise opportunities.
Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had Delta once. Prior to it I would ride 30 miles on my bike like it was a breezy day. When I'd take breaks to vacation or whatever I could pick back up easily. A year after COVID, I'm struggling to hit 20 miles and I lose my progress easily. I'm not sure it's COVID related, but nothing else has changed in my life.
Lockdowns have also broken everyone’s regular exercise and healthy habits. On charts we all assign this to Covid, but lockdowns were an artificial, additional decision.
> "Lockdowns have also broken everyone’s regular exercise and healthy habits."
If anything, I think I actually got a bit healthier because of lockdown. Eating healthier due to fewer restaurant meals, drinking less due to not being able to go to pubs and parties etc.
Probably got more exercise too because for a while it was one of the few valid excuses to get out of the house!
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is competely wrong. See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...
Why is that article still a preprint?
While there are several problems with that paper, it should be noted, as an epidemiologist, that the publication timelines for COVID-19 papers have gone well and truly pear shaped.
Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think on a macro scale you're right, attitudes and disciplines are also somewhat to blame. Sweden, though, did not lock down, and I hear (and experience) the same issue as the parent. The first day back after COVID and I reached my max heart rate in 60s of moderate jogging.
Both my gym and pool were closed for almost half a year in Sweden.
What, really? SATS closed for like 2 months at the start of the pandemic and has been open since then.
My girlfriend is the manager of one of the Malmo branches.
Re: Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
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You've got billions of people worldwide who've been vaccinated. How many have had instances of heart failure?
Certainly an unusual number of incredibly fit Football players (>1), and an incredibly number (0) of American Football players.
Incredibly fit young people sometimes die of heart attacks. They had no diagnosible heart condition prior. There are a couple hundred ways the heart can fail, and only the common ones are tested for.
I.e. being fit and healthy will reduce the odds of a heart attack, but will never eliminate the possibility.