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Coronavirus causing heart disease in some patients, study finds
coronavirus can cause heart disease in some patients, even those who had relatively mild symptoms of COVID-19, a new study has found.The study, published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, examined a group of 100 COVID-19 patients. Some were sick enough to have been hospitalized, and some had a mild enough illness that they were discharged and left to recover at home.Around 60 per cent of those patients had evidence of myocardial damage – inflammation of the heart muscle, which can be mild, or eventually increase the risk of serious cardiac problems like heart failure.“This is actually quite scary,” said Dr.