A heart condition, myocarditis, has been found in a number of U.S. college athletes who have had COVID-19, a new study finds. Jeudy and his colleagues said that myocarditis has been linked to up to 20% of sudden deaths in young athletes. “We know that COVID can affect the heart, and we know there’s no reason to risk the potential for the kind of long-term effects of COVID,” Jeudy said. The conference required all athletes who had COVID to get a series of heart tests before returning to play. Twenty of these patients with COVID-19 myocarditis (54%) had no cardiac symptoms or heart abnormalities seen on other tests.

Source: The Times December 03, 2021 07:21 UTC