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The commonest problem which has been found is that the people who have had heart disease in the past, their heart disease can get flared and aggravated.
They can have heart attacks and heart failure and also Arrhythmia. Secondly, people who have not had heart disease but have diabetes, and blood pressure can have a heart attack, and many such cases have come which is precipitated by COVID-19.
Thirdly, even if no heart attack is precipitated, when COVID is severe, it is known to cause heart dysfunctions, heart blocks, and different types of rapid heart rate called Arrhythmias," he said, adding, "Deaths due to heart problems had gone up certainly during and after COVID-19." "Yes, this has been a big controversy because a lot of death was occurring at home during COVID-19 when it was at its peak because people were afraid to go out but, data that has been carefully analyzed from certain countries has shown that COVID definitely had increased the risk for heart attacks," he added.