{"id":224756,"date":"2025-11-08T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/analysis-of-14-million-children-finds-covid-19-infection-poses-greater-heart-complication-risk-than-vaccination"},"modified":"2025-11-08T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:05:45","slug":"analysis-of-14-million-children-finds-covid-19-infection-poses-greater-heart-complication-risk-than-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/analysis-of-14-million-children-finds-covid-19-infection-poses-greater-heart-complication-risk-than-vaccination","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of 14 million children finds COVID-19 infection poses greater heart complication risk than vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/analysis-of-14-million-children-finds-covid-19-infection-poses-greater-heart-complication-risk-than-vaccination2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows children and young people face long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or without an infection. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 vaccination was only linked to a short-term higher risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.<\/p>\n<p>The study is the largest of its kind in this population, and is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanchi\/article\/PIIS2352-4642(25)00247-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health<\/i><\/a>. It was led by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and University College London, with support from the BHF Data Science Center at Health Data Research UK.<\/p>\n<p>Principal author Dr. Alexia Sampri, University of Cambridge, said, \u201cOur whole-population study during the pandemic showed that although these conditions were rare, children and young people were more likely to experience heart, vascular or inflammatory problems after a COVID-19 infection than after having the vaccine\u2014and the risks after infection lasted much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows children and young people face long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or without an infection. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 vaccination was only linked to a short-term higher risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. The study is the largest of its kind in this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}