Dear editor,The pandemic of coronavirus disease-19(COVID-19)has lasted for more than three years,causing lots of extra death and posing a serious threat to public health.This pandemic swept the last global safety isla...Dear editor,The pandemic of coronavirus disease-19(COVID-19)has lasted for more than three years,causing lots of extra death and posing a serious threat to public health.This pandemic swept the last global safety island in a matter of months,coinciding with the switch of zero-COVID policy of China.The causative agent,SARS-CoV-2,spreads globally and then lurks in the population with sporadic outbreaks in local areas.Meanwhile,the sequelae of convalescent COVID-19 patients receded slowly.The pantissue tropism of SARS-CoV-2 results in a wide range of symptoms in patients,including cardiovascular disorders.Cardiac complications occur in 20%–44%of hospitalized patients,which is an independent risk factor for COVID-19 mortality(Ma et al.,2022;Patone et al.,2022).Survivors of acute COVID-19 also have a substantial risk of cardiovascular disease burden lasting up to one year(Xie et al.,2022).展开更多
文摘Dear editor,The pandemic of coronavirus disease-19(COVID-19)has lasted for more than three years,causing lots of extra death and posing a serious threat to public health.This pandemic swept the last global safety island in a matter of months,coinciding with the switch of zero-COVID policy of China.The causative agent,SARS-CoV-2,spreads globally and then lurks in the population with sporadic outbreaks in local areas.Meanwhile,the sequelae of convalescent COVID-19 patients receded slowly.The pantissue tropism of SARS-CoV-2 results in a wide range of symptoms in patients,including cardiovascular disorders.Cardiac complications occur in 20%–44%of hospitalized patients,which is an independent risk factor for COVID-19 mortality(Ma et al.,2022;Patone et al.,2022).Survivors of acute COVID-19 also have a substantial risk of cardiovascular disease burden lasting up to one year(Xie et al.,2022).
