Higher death risk found if COVID-19 causes changes to heart.
A new study may help identify which COVID-19 patients with signs of heart injury are at higher risk for death. .
Doctors looked at 305 hospitalized patients with elevated levels of troponin, a protein released when the heart has been injured.
They reported on Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that among these patients, the increased risk for death was statistically significant only when changes in the heart's size, shape, structure, and function were seen during an echocardiogram. .
Death rates were 5.2% in patients without troponin in their blood, 18.6% when troponin was high but hearts looked normal, and 31.7% in those with high troponin plus so-called heart remodeling.
When other risk factors were considered, high troponin was only tied to death in patients who also had cardiac remodeling. .
COVID-19 patients with high troponin should undergo echocardiography "to guide further diagnostic testing and treatment strategies," coauthor Dr.
COVID-19 may be top cause of death among young adults in some U.S
In some areas of the United States during COVID-19 outbreaks, the new coronavirus likely became the leading cause of death among adults aged 25-44, researchers say.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), they analyzed deaths from any cause in that age group from March through July, along with drug overdose deaths during the same period in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available.
It is not clear which states account for the most deaths in each region, coauthor Dr
While antibiotic use fell steadily from 2015 to 2019, in 2020 it reached "levels not seen since 2016," Dr
While use of antibiotics was not directly linked to the number of COVID-19 patients being treated in each facility, "the pandemic provided new challenges to hospital systems that weren't prepared to manage it - from an onslaught of patients to a shortage of rapid diagnostic tests," Goetz said
October 27, 2020
October 27, 2020
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