The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring financial educator and author Jared Dillian has been released. Listen here.
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Over 7 million people currently with heart and circulatory diseases according the BHF. The recommendation for people to lose a bit of weight and get fit was probably made with the intention to help strengthen the major organs.
Dawn here started around 2am or so - when I turned out the light I could still see the outline of the wee hills opposite. Yesterday it was 28C so I'm thankful today doesn't feel quite as hot.
For me, I've been reading up on the use of berries to counteract various cancers, so I think I may need some good recipes.
Many patients have underlying heart issues
Many patients who develop severe COVID-19 complications already have underlying heart issues.
One study looking at over 72,000 patients with COVID-19 found that about 22 percent of patients who died had cardiovascular comorbidities.
The study also found that the fatality rate amongst patients with heart diseases (10.5 percent) was higher than patients with other chronic health conditions (7.3 percent for diabetes, 6.3 percent for chronic respiratory disease, and 5.6 percent for cancer).
“A person with preexisting coronary artery disease is more likely to experience cardiac complications since they already have compromised blood flow to their heart and diminished blood vessel function,” Wolfson said.
If the heart has an even harder time pumping blood to its cells due to COVID-19, the heart cells may become damaged and a person could potentially suffer from a heart attack, said Oen-Hsiao.
Lochinaver Lass, Good Morning to you, I think I have beaten you to sunrise today, (minus the loch)
A very good post, haven"t seen it mentioned here much and is something I have been researching the past couple of weeks, a very good article here, which I first saw some 11/12 days ago now.........................
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-covid-19-triggers-heart-conditions.
The whole subject has been one i have spent a couple of months researching, and has been central to my decision to do Lockdown in the true sense of the word, which I am now relaxing on, with no degree of gret confidence in doing so. For me having four terminal lung conditions lock down was not an option but my heart after three failures, one in which I died for a few minutes has an ejection fraction of just 31, which basically means it pumps blood very slowly through me. An ejection fraction of 25 or below often leads to death and it makes total sense given blood vessels are affected to the degree of causing strokes, thrombosis and many other conditions. Correct me if I am wrong the highest concentration of blood vessels are found around the heart and the lungs so it is easy to see why people have been dying of heart conditions in large numbers too, again especially in hearts that people and me suffer from cardio myopathy. I thimk we have been in lockdown now for some ten weeks, and I mentioned I broke that last Tuesday very reluctantly and still feel the same despite a relaxing of laws for the virus, which still terrifies me, and my biggest fear as I saw last Tuesday was so many people out, and not one of the five member staff at Nationwide were observing social distancing of any kind, let alone before we even know for sure mutations of the virus are not occurring enough to be a major concern. I am just praying we don"t see rises in new cases as a result with the further reductions starting today, but I do understand the economic reasons behind the attempt to get back to a new normality, and pray it works.
Yes a good post which holds a lot of scientific evidence, thanks.
Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything
https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2
InApril, blood clots emerged as one of the many mysterious symptoms attributed to Covid-19, a disease that had initially been thought to largely affect the lungs in the form of pneumonia. Quickly after came reports of young people dying due to coronavirus-related strokes. Next it was Covid toes — painful red or purple digits.
What do all of these symptoms have in common? An impairment in blood circulation. Add in the fact that 40% of deaths from Covid-19 are related to cardiovascular complications, and the disease starts to look like a vascular infection instead of a purely respiratory one.
[Offering this up as received - no idea whether this is correct or not, but thought there may be some who would be interested.]