New Scientist Women’s arteries seem to be stiffer if they have had covid-19, with the same effect not being found among men.Covid-19 seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women.
The infection has previously been linked to cardiovascular complications, like heart disease, but how it has this effect isn’t entirely clear. To learn more, Rosa Maria Bruno at the Université Paris Cité in France and her colleagues recruited 2390 people, aged 50 on average, from 16 countries – including the UK and US – between September 2020 and February 2022.
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