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Heart injury after Covid-19 spurs call to screen college athletes – The Straits Times

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Doctors recommend cardiac screening tests for competitive athletes who have recovered from Covid-19 after a small study found heart damage in 1 in 7 college sports competitors, including in those whose coronavirus infection caused no …

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WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Doctors recommend cardiac screening tests for competitive athletes who have recovered from Covid-19 after a small study found heart damage in 1 in 7 college sports competitors, including in those whose coronavirus infection caused no obvious symptoms.
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging on 26 competitive college athletes who had either a mild or asymptomatic Sars-CoV-2 infection found four, or 15 per cent, with signs of inflammation of the heart muscle.
These suspected …

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