{"id":120474,"date":"2021-03-11T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/we-finally-know-why-covid-19-damages-the-heart"},"modified":"2021-03-11T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:23:01","slug":"we-finally-know-why-covid-19-damages-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/we-finally-know-why-covid-19-damages-the-heart","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know Why COVID-19 Damages The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-why-covid-19-damages-the-heart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many post COVID victims have heart issues. This is why:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study has discovered how the SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks and damages the heart, answering a long-standing question about mysterious heart conditions following COVID-19 infection. The results could have large implications on how to effectively treat severe infections and develop new therapies for preventing long-term damage.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the pandemic, people with severe COVID-19 infection have often displayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/covid-19-and-the-heart-what-have-we-learned-2021010621603#:~:text=COVID-19-related%20inflammation%20raises, off%20its%20supply%20of%20oxygen.\">symptoms of heart distress<\/a>. Those with underlying heart conditions are at a greater risk of severe illness if they catch it, and reports of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia) in previously healthy patients with acute COVID-19 have been common.<\/p>\n<p>However, exactly why this happens has eluded scientists until now. Researchers have been unsure whether the heart symptoms are a result of severe inflammation as the body reacts to the infection, or whether the virus particles themselves invade and attack heart cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many post COVID victims have heart issues. This is why: A new study has discovered how the SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks and damages the heart, answering a long-standing question about mysterious heart conditions following COVID-19 infection. The results could have large implications on how to effectively treat severe infections and develop new therapies for preventing long-term [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}