People who catch Covid are at a heightened risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, a study has found. Infected patients were more likely to be diagnosed with the potentially deadly illnesses within three months, researchers say.
Cases of cardiovascular disease - conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels - rose by six times. Meanwhile diabetes rates almost doubled.
The findings were based on the medical records of more than 850,000 people across the UK. These included 428,000 Covid patients and the same number of controls.
