1/ I'm seeing "heart issues related to #COVID19" making the rounds again on Twitter today - I have to admit, I just saw this study that found 48% of elite high-endurance athletes had myocardial inflammation post-infection. Yikes! (source below)
2/ Wait…what's this? This is from 2009? And it's about…the common cold? Not COVID-19? So strange…why haven't we stopped all sports for this? Surely athletes have been dying from cardiac inflammation since the beginning of time! This cannot stand!
jcmr-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
3/ Dropping the facetious façade now…as I (and more importantly, cardiologists) have been saying all along, cardiac inflammation after an infection (particularly a bad one) is nothing new. It is why they say it's important to take it easy while you are sick and for a while after
4/ However, if you aren't sick and haven't been, you have nothing to worry about. Even the author of the German JAMA cardiology study on post-#COVID19 effects agrees - "I don't think ordinary people should worry about this at all".
5/ Additionally, I'd be curious to know how many of these athletes from the 2009 study experienced myocarditis symptoms (e.g. arrhythmias) vs. being completely normal. Our medical technology has gotten so good, it can detect things we didn't even know about decades ago.
6/ In summary, if you are worried about myocarditis from #COVID19, you should also be worried about the common cold, hepatitis B/C, strep throat, even mononucleosis and herpes. This can also be applied to many other COVID "secondary effects".
cc @kylamb8 @kerpen @AskeladdenTX
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