Myocarditis

Patients receiving hypertension treatment may be protected from cognitive decline if they are prescribed medications that cross the blood-brain barrier, a recent analysis showed.

Myocarditis in children is most commonly caused by viral infection, although there are a variety of infectious and noninfectious causes, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

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The American Heart Association and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices both emphasized that reports of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination should not dissuade people from getting immunized.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday agreed with CDC staff recommendations that myocarditis risks in young people associated with messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines did not outweigh the vaccines’ benefits.

Seven patients who developed myocarditis-like symptoms after COVID-19 vaccination were able to recover after treatment, according to a case series published in Circulation.

This week, the CDC reported that breakthrough infections are rare among the first 101 million fully vaccinated people; tai chi is found to be effective to reduce belly fat in older adults; the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine safety group says its reviewed ‘few’ reports of myocarditis in young people; a follow-up analysis supports tocilizumab in moderate-to-severe COVID-19-associated pneumonia; and lidocaine throat spray reduces cough frequency in patients with refractory chronic cough.

The benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the risks despite the possibility of heart-related complications such as myocarditis, the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association announced in a statement.

The CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine safety group recently reviewed what it said were “relatively few reports” of myocarditis among young recipients of the messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 positivity, older age at onset, and the presence of myocarditis are more common with multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children than with Kawasaki disease, according to data published Pediatric Rheumatology.