VIDEO: In COVID-19, MI risk elevated with at least one cardiometabolic risk factor
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Key takeaways:
- Patients with COVID-19 have excess risk for heart attack, even if they have a variant tied to less severe infectious disease.
- The excess risk is apparent in patients with even one cardiometabolic risk factor.
PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, discusses the excess risk for heart attack in patients with COVID-19.
The excess MI risk, still apparent in the era of the omicron variants, seems “to be associated with the fact that even just having one cardiometabolic risk factor, [which] could be obesity, could be diabetes, could be hypertension, seems to interact with viral susceptibility to having the more severe outcomes” from COVID-19, Cheng, professor of cardiology and director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, said during the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference.
Watch the video for more.
Reference:
- Cheng S. Session 9 – COVID-19 in the Cardiometabolic Patient. Presented at: Heart in Diabetes CME Conference; June 9-11, 2023; Philadelphia.
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