Coronavirus has learned to penetrate the heart: scientists have announced fatal consequences

A new type of coronavirus can not only affect functionality lungs, it also affects the heart.

The first study to confirm this dangerous trend was conducted in Germany. Scientists from the University Hospital Frankfurt analyzed heart health in 100 people who had had coronavirus, according to the Daily Mail.

Before the coronavirus, 50 people were healthy, the rest had age-related risk factors. After the coronavirus receded, scientists recorded high levels of the protein tropolin in 78 people, which is observed after a heart attack.

In 60 people, the researchers found signs of heart inflammation, these symptoms persisted two months after infection.

The second study on the effect of coronavirus on the main muscle of our body was conducted in Hamburg (at the Cardiovascular Center). It turned out that in 39 people who died from COVID-19, high concentrations of the virus were recorded in the heart.

The effect of coronavirus on myocardial damage has been almost proven. People may have survived a viral heart infection.

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