ISLAMABAD: A new research suggests that vaccination against COVID-19 is associated with fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, is the first to examine both partial and complete vaccination and the connection to Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) in America.
The U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaboration database was used by scientists from Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. According to Xinhua, the study involved 1,934,294 patients, of whom 217,843 received mRNA vaccine formulations from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or viral vector technology from Johnson & Johnson.
Impact of earlier vaccination
According to senior author Girish N. Nadkarni, professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, “We sought to clarify the impact of earlier vaccination on cardiovascular events among people who develop COVID-19 and found that, particularly among those with comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes, previous MACE, high cholesterol, liver disease, and obesity, there is an association with a lower risk of complications.”
“While we cannot attribute causality, it is supportive evidence that vaccination may have beneficial effects on various post-COVID-19 complications,” he said. — APP
