Newsweek (7/9, Gander) reports that research suggests “the stress of living through the COVID-19 pandemic may be associated with a rise in” stress cardiomyopathy.
NBC News (7/9, Sandoval) reports that investigators “looked at the medical records of 1,914 patients at two hospitals in the Cleveland Clinic health system from five eight-week periods, four of which occurred before the pandemic and the other since then.” Prior to “the pandemic, there were, on average, five to 12 cases in an eight-week period, but in the cohort observed during the pandemic, the number rose to 20.” The researchwas published in JAMA Open Network.
Related Links:
— “Stress Caused by COVID-19 May Have Triggered Rise in Broken Heart Syndrome, “Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, July 9, 2020