On February 7, an American study was published in the journal “Nature Medicine” and the results are alarming. The risk of developing a disease cardiovascular is increased by 55%, following contracting the coronavirus. The survey was conducted among 153,760 people whose test revealed the presence of the Sars-CoV-2 virus between March 1, 2020 and January 15, 2021 and who survived the first thirty days of the disease. The majority of participants were unvaccinated. Indeed, the vaccines were only available at the end of this period.
According to Le Monde, “these infected people were compared to a group of more than 5.6 million uninfected people over the same period and then a control group of more than 5.8 million patients followed before the pandemic, between March 2018 and January 2019”. All medical records analyzed, made anonymous, came from the cohort of veteranswith a majority of men (89%), aged on average 61.4 years, and more at risk of developing comorbidities.
► “What we see is not good”: here is the statement of epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly, author of the study
► Yves Coppieters, professor of public health at the ULB wants to be cautious
: “We must put in place a real post-Covid follow-up strategy”