Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • NEWS FEATURE

Heart disease after COVID: what the data say

Some studies suggest that the risk of cardiovascular problems, such as a heart attack or stroke, remains high even many months after a SARS-CoV-2 infection clears up. Researchers are starting to pin down the frequency of these issues and what is causing the damage.
  1. Saima May Sidik

    1. Saima May Sidik is a freelance science journalist based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar

In December 2020, a week before cardiologist Stuart Katz was scheduled to receive his first COVID-19 vaccine, he came down with a fever. He spent the next two weeks wracked with a cough, body aches and chills. After months of helping others to weather the pandemic, Katz, who works at New York University, was having his own first-hand experience of COVID-19.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Nature 608, 26-28 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02074-3

References

  1. Xie, Y., Xu, E., Bowe, B. & Al-Aly, Z. Nature Med. 28, 583–590 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Xie, Y. & Al-Aly, Z. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 10, 311–321 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Bazdyrev, E. et al. Pharmaceuticals 14, 807 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Boldrini, M., Canoll, P. D. & Klein, R. S. JAMA Psychiatry 78, 682–683 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Ayoubkhani, D. et al. BMJ 372, n693 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Daugherty, S. E. et al. BMJ 373, n1098 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Singh, T. et al. Heart 108, 46–53 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Expert Consensus Decision Pathway. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 79, 1717–1756 (2022).

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. The PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group. Lancet Respir. Med. 10, 761–775 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Taquet, M., Husain, M., Geddes, J. R., Luciano, S. & Harrison, P. J. eClinicalMedicine 39, 101061 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Wang, E. Y. et al. Nature 595, 283–288 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Al-Aly, Z., Bowe, B. & Xie, Y. Nature Med. 28, 1461–1467 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Subjects

Latest on:

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links