{"id":9450,"date":"2025-05-14T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9450"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:32:01","slug":"cardiovascular-implications-of-long-covid-severe-covid-what-to-know-how-to-manage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/14\/cardiovascular-implications-of-long-covid-severe-covid-what-to-know-how-to-manage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiovascular Implications of Long COVID, Severe COVID: What to Know, How to Manage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/cardiovascular-implications-long-covid-severe-covid-what-2025a1000bfc?form=fpf\">MedScape<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As cases of long COVID \u2014 often defined as symptoms that weren\u2019t present before persisting for 3 or more months after the infection \u2014 became more prevalent and alarming, researchers began to zero in on the commonly reported cardiovascular symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, and palpitations, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long-COVID patients, much research has found, have significantly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/doi\/10.1016\/S0735-1097%2823%2902559-7\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"higher odds, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">higher odds<\/a>&nbsp;of developing cardiac complications than those without long COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, some researchers recommend that severe COVID, such as cases requiring hospitalization, be viewed as an independent cardiovascular risk factor, regardless of the patient\u2019s cardiac health history, and that aggressive measures be initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/cardiovascular-implications-long-covid-severe-covid-what-2025a1000bfc?form=fpf\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedScape As cases of long COVID \u2014 often defined as symptoms that weren\u2019t present before persisting for 3 or more months after the infection \u2014 became more prevalent and alarming, researchers began to zero in on the commonly reported cardiovascular symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, and palpitations, among others. Long-COVID patients, much [&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-9450","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\/9450","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=9450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9451,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450\/revisions\/9451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}