{"id":4524,"date":"2023-09-05T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:31:45","slug":"covid-19-took-a-toll-on-heart-health-and-doctors-are-still-grappling-with-how-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/05\/covid-19-took-a-toll-on-heart-health-and-doctors-are-still-grappling-with-how-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid19-long-covid-heart-3dd8f26c663e96bffcc2980830626153\">AP<\/a> Firefighter and paramedic Mike Camilleri once had no trouble hauling heavy gear up ladders. Now battling long COVID, he gingerly steps onto a treadmill to learn how his heart handles a simple walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is, like, not a tough-guy test so don\u2019t fake it,\u201d warned Beth Hughes, a physical therapist at Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow, a mild case of COVID-19 set off a chain reaction that eventually left Camilleri with dangerous blood pressure spikes, a heartbeat that raced with slight exertion, and episodes of intense chest pain. He\u2019s far from alone. How profound a toll COVID-19 has taken on the nation\u2019s heart health is only starting to emerge, years into the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid19-long-covid-heart-3dd8f26c663e96bffcc2980830626153\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"lFRDQTYNTTCWgque cf cRKFOPoP \">lFRDQTYNTTCWgque cf cRKFOPoP <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Firefighter and paramedic Mike Camilleri once had no trouble hauling heavy gear up ladders. Now battling long COVID, he gingerly steps onto a treadmill to learn how his heart handles a simple walk. \u201cThis is, like, not a tough-guy test so don\u2019t fake it,\u201d warned Beth Hughes, a physical therapist at Washington University in [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"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\/4524","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=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}