Being infected by Covid can trigger chest pains for up to 12 months, warns a new study. It has already been established that even people with mild Covid-19 infections can suffer from health complications for several months.
Around one in five adults who had previously tested positive report having “Long Covid” - defined as experiencing signs and symptoms for four weeks or more after the initial phase of infection. In an effort to quantify what Long Covid means now, and could mean in the future, researchers at Intermountain Health in the United States examined more than 140,000 patients for cardiovascular symptoms.
They found that patients who tested positive for Covid had higher rates of chest pain both six months and a year after infection. Principal investigator Doctor Heidi May said: “Many Covid-19 patients experience symptoms well beyond the acute phase of infection.
