{"id":10102,"date":"2025-08-20T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:36:00","slug":"covid-19-seems-to-age-blood-vessels-but-only-among-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/20\/covid-19-seems-to-age-blood-vessels-but-only-among-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 seems to age blood vessels \u2013 but only among women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2492805-covid-19-seems-to-age-blood-vessels-but-only-among-women\/\">New Scientist<\/a> Women&#8217;s arteries seem to be stiffer if they have had covid-19, with the same effect not being found among men.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/covid-19\/\">Covid-19<\/a>&nbsp;seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infection has previously been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-022-01689-3#Sec19\">linked to cardiovascular complications<\/a>, like heart disease, but how it has this effect isn\u2019t entirely clear. To learn more,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esc365.escardio.org\/person\/123149\">Rosa Maria Bruno<\/a>\u00a0at the Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9 in France and her colleagues recruited 2390 people, aged 50 on average, from 16 countries \u2013 including the UK and US \u2013 between September 2020 and February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2492805-covid-19-seems-to-age-blood-vessels-but-only-among-women\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist Women&#8217;s arteries seem to be stiffer if they have had covid-19, with the same effect not being found among men.Covid-19&nbsp;seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women. The infection has previously been\u00a0linked to cardiovascular complications, like heart disease, but how it has this effect isn\u2019t entirely clear. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}