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What diseases increase risk of heart attack?
Influenza, coronavirus, adenovirus, rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial infections increase the risk of a heart attack in a person, Svetlana Bozhko, a pulmonologist, therapist and expert of the "Coronavirus Control" project, told URA.RU.
"The leader among provoking factors of a heart attack continues to be influenza, because it is frequent and strongly affects blood circulation. The likelihood of a heart attack with coronavirus is high - the risk increases by an average of eight times, according to observations by Russian scientists and doctors. Other types of SARS also increase the risk of heart attack: adenovirus infection, rhinovirus infection, respiratory syncytial infection. The cause of cardiologic pathology can also be bacteria: pneumococci and hemophilus influenzae", said Svetlana Bozhko.
The specialist noted that the severity of the infection and the type of pathogen are not always associated with the risk of complications. "There are cases when after a harmless adenovirus infection there were heart attacks, and COVID or influenza did not give heart complications. After a severe respiratory infection, cardiovascular consequences can overtake the patient months later," the pulmonologist emphasized.
The doctor explained why these infections affect the cardiovascular system. "Any infectious disease is not limited to the nose or throat. The disease itself and the immune responses that arise in response to it affect the entire body," she noted.
Predisposition to heart attack and heart failure occurs because influenza and acute respiratory infections, including COVID-19, cause inflammation of the walls of blood vessels that bring blood to the heart, increased clotting, the internist said. These diseases also contribute to the direct damaging effect of the virus on the heart muscle and heart valves, pathological immune reactions accompanied by autoantibodies and damage to the body's own tissues. There is also a change in the blood flow in the small circulatory system due to dyspnea and respiratory failure.
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