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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.
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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