Americans fall to death at home of heart attacks at alarming rates, doctors warn.
Researchers from Mass-General Brigham, a hospital affiliated by Harvard, discovered that heart-related deaths have risen to 17 percent in the years after the COVID Pandemie.
And although the exact number is unknown, heart attacks have been at home in many of these cases, even though the dead in hospitals decrease.
This suggests that patients are ‘missed’ – until it is too late.
Dr. Jason H Wasfy, study author and director of Outcomes Research in the Massachusetts General Hospital, said: ‘Many reports have shown that there have been fewer heart attacks in hospitals since 2020 – but there seems to be something missing in that data.
‘We now show that if you explain the dead at home, the cardiac deaths go up and stayed for years. Nowadays there are many more people who have heart deaths at home, which also expressed the concern that people with heart disorders do not receive the care they need since the pandemic. ‘
The Covid virus – which is thought to have infected more than 100 million Americans – has been demonstrated that it causes damage to the heart and blood vessels that can be a factor.
But doctors say that more factors have to play that are still understood – including nutrition and lifestyle factors.
A study this week showed, for example, that smoking marijuana or consuming food can increase the risk.
Mass -General Brigham researchers discovered in a new study that the dead of heart attack exceeded expectations during the pandemic (stock image)
The graph above shows the estimated deaths due to cardiac causes in residents of Massachusetts compared to the actual speed. The researchers said that many of these deaths took place at home
Although the full findings have not yet been released, the experts believe that the pandemic can also be linked to a mysterious increase in young Americans who suffer heart attacks.
The study, published on Friday in Jama Network Openlooked at 127,746 death certificates from people who died in Massachusetts between January 2014 and July 2024.
The average age was 77 and around 52 percent were men.
The researchers subsequently made population scenes based on American census data from 2014 to 2023.
With the help of death certificate and census data, the team has set an expected cardiac death rate for 2020 to 2023.
They found that heart deaths were 16 percent higher than expected in 2020, 17 percent higher in 2021 and 2022 and six percent higher in 2023.
The amount of the monthly cardiac deaths at home also exceeded the expected levels between 2020 and 2022 and in hospitals between 2020 and 2023.
However, they quoted additional information that shows that the hospital admissions of a heart attack decreased by 20 to 34 percent after the start of the pandemic. This suggests that many of these excess deaths took place at home.
The researchers wrote: ‘In this population -based cohort study of the deceased of Massachusetts, we found that the cardiac deaths increased considerably from 2020, with exaggerated seasonal patterns and an increase in the dead at home.
“Although many other studies have found fewer recordings for cardiac emergency situations in countries around the world, these studies may have missed events that take place outside hospitals.”
The researchers suggested that this increase could be due to more people who avoid hospitals during the pandemic or are fired by doctors.
CDC Research from 2020For example, 40 percent of Americans found delayed or avoided searching for medical care at the start of the pandemic, and 12 percent stayed away from first aid.
However, rising research also shows that the COVID virus itself can cause heart problems in the long term, which increases the risk of heart death.
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Covid has been associated with myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle and pericarditis, inflammation of the pocket -like lining around the heart.
With myocarditis, it is thought that Covid ensures that the immune system attacks itself and causes an inflammation of the myocardium, the muscle of the heart.
The same mechanism is linked to pericarditis.
Although most cases are mild, in rare cases myocarditis can damage the heart and make it difficult to pump blood, which ultimately leads to heart failure, heart attack and stroke.
In cases as rare as one in 200,000, the MRNA in Covid -vaccines can cause comparable immune response and cause myocarditis or pericarditis.
COVID induced inflammation also changes the electrical signals of the heart, which leads to irregular heartbeats called Arithmias.
Research that was published this week also pointed to smoking weed or taking food at least three times a week as a potential cause of heart attacks.
That team found endothelial cells, which hold the blood vessels and regulate blood flow, release less nitrogen monoxide in people who regularly smoked marijuana or took food.
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Nitrogen monoxide helps to dilate blood vessels and deliver vital oxygen throughout the body.
This reduced function influences the ability of the blood vessels to dilate, increasing the risk of atherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes.
Dr. John HSU, senior study -author of the new study and director of the Clinical Economy and Policy Analysis program at Mass General, said: ‘Healthcare systems around the world have experienced several shocks since 2020. Our findings suggest that both patient choices about the search for care and outcomes have changed after experiencing a cardiac emergency situation.
“If we had not investigated mortality with the help of data on death certificate, the increase in cardiac death of the population could have unnoticed.”
There were various restrictions on the study, including the lack of data on the causes that led to heart death. It is unclear when the complete findings will be released.
The study was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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