people with advanced HIV disease are more vulnerable to poor COVID-19 outcomes. COVID-19 vaccines are effective and well tolerated in the majority of PWH, though reduced vaccine efficacy, breakthrough infections and faster waning of vaccine effectiveness have been demonstrated in PWH. This is like...
There are fresh calls for people with underlying health conditions to take a Covid vaccine Credit: PA Scores of charities have written an open letter to encourage people with underlying health conditions to come forward for a coronavirus vaccine....
HEART disease related mortalityPEOPLE with diabetesCOVID-19 pandemicHEALTH facilitiesMEDICAL care useMEDICAL careCOVID-19Most studies reported reduced health care use among people with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. This may be due to restricted medical services or people avoiding health care ...
Contrary to the popular belief, coronary heart disease (CHD) is indeed common in the Indian sub-continent. Expatriate Indians in their newly adopted countries have 3 to 5 times more chance of developing CHD than the native population or the other immigrant groups. The well-known risk factors ...
co-existing health conditions on par with heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes. For example, intellectual disabilities, especially those caused by genetic disorders, include complications that might be thought to hinder treatment and so result in a poor prognosis, even though they are not ...
has the potential to become a new treatment for COVID-19. It is beneficial regardless of viral mutations. It is the first specifictreatment for COVID disease(as opposed to antivirals or vaccines) and may herald a new field of drugs activating cells in the body which become themselves the ...
That makes being vaccinated against COVID-19, flu and other illnesses an important way for people with heart disease to protect themselves. That fact can get lost in the swirl of new information, not to mention misinformation, surrounding vaccines. Now that theupdated COVID-19 vaccineis availabl...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,chronic health conditionssuch as CVD have been associated with the most severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths. CVD includescoronary heart disease(angina and heart attack), stroke, and transient ischemic attacks (mini-strokes). However, people at raised...
Downing noted that not all patients with heart defects who were hospitalized with COVID-19 had poor outcomes. "More work is needed to identify why the clinical course of COVID-19 disease results in significantly worse outcomes for somehospitalized patientswith risk factors for critical COVID-19 ...
Dr. Chun said, "This was the first analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in a large population of heart failure patients, and the first to show a clear benefit from vaccination. The study provides strong evidence to support vaccination in patients with heart failure. However, this evidence...