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Decoded: How COVID-19 disease causes heart muscle damage, affects heart rate – Firstpost

It was unknown, till now, if these conditions were caused by the virus infecting the heart, or from inflammation elsewhere in the body.

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It was unknown, till now, if these conditions were caused by the virus infecting the heart, or from inflammation elsewhere in the body.
Heart damage in COVID-19 patients is caused by the novel coronavirus infecting cardiac muscle cells, leading to cell death which interferes with the muscle’s contraction, according to a study that may lead to the development of new drugs to treat the viral infection. While studies since the beginning of the pandemic have linked COVID-19 with heart problems such…

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