Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/mQRVaYd2O1Q   A case of CoVid increases your risk of heart failure by 72% and your risk of a stroke by 52%.  Those increased and possibly deadly risks continue for more than a year after your infection.  So say Washington University-St. Louis epidemiologists following their analysis of 153,750 military veterans with CoVid compared with 11,497,058 controls looking for complications 30 days beyond their infection’s start.   The other cardiac grief you can expect besides frank heart failure includes arrhythmias, myocarditis, and pericarditis.  Besides strokes, you can expect thromboembolic disease in other parts of your body.   What’s more, these health catastrophes occurred in many with CoVid cases mild enough that hospitalization was unnecessary though case severity did raise the risks.  The study looked at vets who are predominately white males, and other groups might fare even worse.   Get vaccinated, if vaccinated get boosted, and play it smart with high quality masks, distancin